Chuck Berry Quotes
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The iPod made music mobile, but today, how many devices do you need to walk around with? You want it on just one. And inevitably that's going to be the phone.
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I've always written songs that were confessional, acoustic, wordy - my writing style matches my personality. The music always has to match the mouth it comes out of.
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I have such an eclectic taste. I like listening to classical music and pop music.
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Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
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I just love, love going around and traveling and bringing the music to people. They just make you feel so happy that you came.
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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
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You may grow very quickly the first two years and then watch the business decline, unless you really start selling product at any price range with various degrees of quality.
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Punk's influence on music, movies, art, design and fashion is no longer in doubt. It is used as the measurement for what is cool.
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Rock was always part of my heart and soul. But the times just changed and everybody wanted to dance.
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My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.
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It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.
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There's consciousness in my music, and my music comes from a conscious place. And when people say that, I certainly take it as a compliment. But my job, in terms of selling my music, is to be universal and to try to get it to everybody.
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I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs.
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I've always considered music stores to be the graveyards of musicians.
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Music is really something that makes people whole.
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The only time I've ever really felt envy is when I've watched people make music, which made my time living in the now-legendary Jazz Loft at 821 Sixth Avenue in New York a constant source of agony and ecstasy!
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It was a privilege to direct the music video for Adele's beautiful, heartbreaking song, 'Hello.' When I first heard it, all the images appeared clearly in my head - and her trust and generosity allowed me to work with abandon artistically and emotionally, like she always does. It made me extremely proud.
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I don't know if it's possible to live the rock 'n roll lifestyle and still be romantic.
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It's wonderful for me to see what 'We Will Rock You' has done. 'We Will Rock You' and 'We Are the Champions' have kind of transcended the normal framework of where music is listened to and appreciated - they've become part of public life, which I feel wonderful about.
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Music and herb go together. It's been a long time now I smoke herb. From 1960's, when I first start singing.
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There is...a tendency to think of the spiritual life as primarily introspective, divorced from the concerns of everyday life....Faith that does not translate into actions is no faith at all.
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Personality and mind, like moustaches, belong to a certain age. They are a deformity in a child.... Leave his sensibilities, his emotions, his spirit, and his mind severely alone. There is the devil in mothers, that they must provoke personalresponse from their infants.
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There's a point at which we make our lives, but we also take the path which is given to us.
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It's gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me.
