Chuck Berry Quotes
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What interested me about Chuck Berry was the way he could step out of the rhythm part with such ease, throwing in a nice, simple riff, and then drop straight into the feel of it again. We used to play a lot more rhythm stuff. We'd do away with the differences between lead and rhythm guitar. You can't go into a shop and ask for a "lead guitar". You're a guitar player, and you play a guitar.
Keith Richards
The Rolling Stones
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My influences were Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis and Chuck Berry.
Micky Dolenz
The Monkees
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Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
Keith Richards
The Rolling Stones
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James Brown, Ray Charles, Jackie Wilson, Chuck Berry and Little Richard - I think they had strong influences on a lot of people, because these were the guys who really got rock'n'roll going. I like to start with the origin of things, because once it gets along it changes. It's so interesting to see how it really was in the beginning.
Michael Jackson
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Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it. If you were going to give Rock 'n' Roll another name you might as well call it Chuck Berry. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - Rock and Roll or Christianity.
John Lennon
The Beatles
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I never liked blues music, and I really didn't like jazz. I liked Chuck Berry.
John William Cummings
Ramones