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• ‟ I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint.

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• ‟ The first thing I heard was spiritual music, which was imbedded. The second thing I heard was swing. And shortly, along with that, I began to hear the blues. And then I began to hear Latin music. Each one left its mark.

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• ‟ The music played most around St. Louis was country-western and swing. Curiosity provoked me to lay a lot of the country stuff on our predominantly black audience. After they laughed at me a few times, they began requesting the hillbilly stuff.

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• ‟ My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents.

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• ‟ The Rolling Stones... The Rolling Stones have a reflection to my music; I wouldn't deny it. I think that's honest.

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• ‟ Music should be made to make people forget their problems, if only for a short while.

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• ‟ In a way, I feel it might be ill-mannered to try and top myself. The music I play is a ritual. Something that matters to people in a special way. I wouldn't want to interfere with that.

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• ‟ Music is science. Everything is science. Because science is truth.

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• ‟ I directed my music to the teen-agers. I was 30 years old when I did 'Maybellene.' My school days had long been over when I did 'School Day,' but I was thinking of them.

  - Chuck Berry