Slash quote: "And, as soon as I could put together the, you know, three or four notes that made up, like, sort of a rock and roll lick, you know, like a Chuck Berry kind of thing, I was off and running. Just completely taken over."

Growing up, I never listened to English music. I was more into Motown, as well as early rock n' ...
ALEX WINSTON

If you're going to do Chuck Berry, you got to, you know, go all out, and the duck walk is just k...
MOS DEF

If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'.
JOHN LENNON

Rock and roll came into my life when I was about 12, 13, when Little Richard and Chuck Berry had jus...
JOE COCKER

I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES

You know, I used to be made fun of as a kid for being really articulate; it was sort of like a stran...
CARLA GUGINO

I grew up with music in the house. I was told I could sing as soon as I started talking. Everybody i...
TRACY CHAPMAN

You know how when you're alone with your cat, your cat is kind of silly and goofy and kind of cr...
MICHAELA WATKINS

You know, rap is sort of like a form of talking, right? So it's like you can hear, you know, the...
NAS

Rock n' roll was one thing, and then they chopped off the 'roll' and called it 'rock...
TOM PETTY

You didn't know whether Chuck Berry was black or white - it was not a concern.
KEITH RICHARDS

My all-time favorite rock and roll players were Scotty Moore, Chuck Berry and Franny Beecher, and I ...
ALVIN LEE

I wasn't known as a neighborhood tough or anything like that. But yeah, I was, like, a scrappy k...
BARRY JENKINS

You could imagine something like a completely automated system for renting bikes that's just don...
VITALIK BUTERIN

One summer I remember, I got exposed to Chuck Berry and Buddy Holly and Buddy Holly was a very very ...
ERIC CLAPTON

I knew I could never be an actor as a man. It just doesn't work, you know? And so when I was doi...
CANDIS CAYNE

You know, it looks like I have a varied resume or a varied career, that I've made interesting ch...
ADAM SCOTT

I know something about performing. I know that when it seems like the avalanche is about to roll ove...
JILLIAN LAUREN

My first guitar was a Gretsch 6120, and I just loved listening to artists like Elvis, Chuck Berry an...
DRAKE BELL

So the kind of boy I was, or that I was told to be, you were kind of this like half-gladiator, half-...
JUNOT DIAZ

I don't like the word soon because you don't know when it's going to sneak up on you and turn into N...
KATHRYN ERSKINE

You know those little snow globes that you shake up? I always thought my brain was sort of like that...
GARY LARSON

There are approximately two trillion cells in the human body. You are never alone, there are always ...
DWIGHT W. HAYES

I was just running as hard as I could, wanting to make them make a play, and the next thing you know...
DAVE ROBERTS

There was absolutely no footing I don't know how you could come off the ball or cut. It was like som...
JOHN CALLAHAN

As soon as the words leave her mouth, I'm completely consumed by a sense of peace. For the first tim...
COLLEEN HOOVER

I view my job as being someone who is supposed to piss people off. I don't want to be just one-of-th...
MARILYN MANSON

I'm a neighborhood-bar kind of guy, anyway. I'd just as soon have a hamburger and fries as have a st...
ED NOTTLE

As this event grows, we'd like to see it take place over the course of a three-day weekend, with thr...
LINDA MCCARTHY

I looked out the window and saw the deer running, like they knew something was coming. Next thing yo...
DAVID BAYER

When the fearsome foursome of rock music, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Little Richard, and Jerry Lee Lew...
D. A. PENNEBAKER

And 'Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll' was a very transitional film for me in that I wa...
ANDY SERKIS

This was the first thing I ever said, "All right, I'm gonna try to do the very best I can." Instead ...
DAVID LIPSKY

I miss you," I whispered.
"I know, Bella. believe me, I know. It's like you've taken half my se...
STEPHENIE MEYER

Aye, well, I've got my garden.
LIKE I

I told my Nike representative, 'Why didn't you guys use me for this?''' Williams said, laughing.
LIKE I

On the interception, I was out of bounds,
LIKE I

casually made his 'abort black fetuses' argument.
LIKE I

I can field my position. If I start worrying about being ready for a line drive too soon that means ...
LIKE I

I told him that he played a great game,'' said Falcons quarterback Michael Vick , who like Manning w...
LIKE I

I was so concerned with getting the ball out of my hands and not taking the sack, that sometimes I t...
LIKE I

I knew I had to throw the ball better,'' Manning said of his poor start.
LIKE I

I think the reason that I have that title or that moniker is because people don't know what to expec...
LIKE I

You're either ready and prepared to take on the task, or you're not,'' he said.
LIKE I

I did not have one butterfly out there today,'' he said.
LIKE I

Married to the Mob.
LIKE I

Hello you're with Drudge.
LIKE I

I don't expect Christian Fundamentalists to reach out to me. They are adamant that homosexuals are i...
LIKE I

throw enough shit at the wall and some should stick?
LIKE I

I'm not happy, that's all I can say about it,'' he said.
LIKE I

I'm a hybrid-genre person, which a lot of people find confusing. I grew up listening to American...
TEDDY THOMPSON

I know what that tastes like, to be a rock-and-roll star - to have a limousine, to have girls scream...
PATTI SMITH

Very much like that, and very much a loner, do you know and I didn't fit really into sport or al...
ERIC CLAPTON

You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!
EMILY BRONTë

I feel like every woman is a queen, and we should be treated as such, and we should, you know, sort ...
QUEEN LATIFAH

You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently.
Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m...
SARAH J. MAAS

The thing we all know is that you can't take a day off... in anything. If you do, the next thing...
CHAD KELLY

I know I'm not the kind of person who's gonna wind up a walking jukebox, like many rock '...
CARLOS SANTANA

A lot of people ask me why I don't expand and explore other musical areas, but I like the plain ...
JOAN JETT

I don't know," she said. "We used to squabble a lot when we were going together and then engaged and...
DOROTHY PARKER

I don't know what religious people do. I kind of wished I'd been a Christian with the blind faith th...
MARCIA WALLACE

You know, nobody eats in England. Three or four pints of English beer a night fills you. I can't say...
ANNE DUDLEY

We're hoping to put together a stretch of three or four games here that can help us. That's so big -...
CAROLYN HUNTER

I was terrified of vault, like literally I hated it. I had a fear of running as fast as I could at a...
ALICIA SACRAMONE

He was standing there for a good minute or two, contemplating to do it or not. Next thing you know, ...
WILL SMITH

I know my sister like I know my own mind, you will never find anyone as trusting or as kind.
LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA

You can't have rock and roll without drugs, you can't have rock and roll without sex.
RICK JAMES

It had a high arc, and as it was coming down it looked like it was off, so I just attacked the glass...
CARL ELLIOTT

I agree with her about oil. To me, perfume is kind of like a put-on thing, like deodorant, you know?...
TERI HATCHER

Yeah. (chuckles) And he was uh, man you know, I had never met the guy before. I've got like some pos...
LONDON LEGRAND

Back then, I, most rockers loved Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis... you know in the ...
JOE COCKER

I started out with friends of mine in high school beat boxing. Everyone would sort of like be in a c...
MATISYAHU MILLER

So there was no explicit bonding. Certainly not the kind you might be expecting if you like films li...
OLIVIA SUDJIC

I think I've learned a lot in my career here. I'm kind of at a point now where I know what's it like...
BRETT BASANEZ

Detroit was kind of a random thing where it was like a chance to be in a rock 'n' roll movie.
EDWARD FURLONG

Not to be mean about it, but some great rock and rollers, like Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry, are prett...
IAN ANDERSON

I tried to emulate my favourite guitar players, the old bluesmen like Blind Willie McTell and Big Bi...
RONNIE WOOD

You cant live champagne life,if you cant buy beer.
I DONT KNOW

I'm just trying to record as much as I can, ... It's like a lifelong obsession with rock music that ...
FRANK BLACK

I don't know what religious people do. I kind of wished I'd been a Christian with the blind ...
MARCIA WALLACE

I like the idea of working in an album-sized chunk, you know, and I never looked at Nine Inch Nails ...
TRENT REZNOR

I don't like lyrics that are just thrown together, that were obviously written as you went along...
NEIL PEART

I think the thing about film is, as it gets proved by a lot of young filmmakers now, that the medium...
ALAN RICKMAN

I never liked blues and I really didn't like jazz. I liked Chuck Berry.
JOHNNY RAMONE

The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison
SARAH J. MAAS

I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you.
SARAH J. MAAS

He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain...
SARAH J. MAAS

Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN

Hodor," said Hodor.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN

You do what you love, what you need
SARAH J. MAAS

I turned.
Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere...
SARAH J. MAAS

I remember, as a kid, thinking more about, you know, watching the world go by and being amazed by ho...
DEAN KAMEN

You know, I don't think of myself as anything like a 'global citizen' or anything of the...
CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE

Rock and roll has probably given more than it's taken.
CHARLIE WATTS

If you want, you can have a coffin made out of cardboard or wicker or papier mache. There's one ...
LAURA WADE

I have to give my family credit for putting up with the racket, because as some of you may know, its...
MAX WEINBERG

I mean, I haven't been completely lacking in some enjoyment of Chuck Berry or Buddy Holly. But I...
WARREN ZEVON

Diana can read power levels,” Astrid said. “Did she ever…”
Sam nodded. “She said the ...
MICHAEL GRANT

Our thing was always music. Back in the heyday people would come in constantly and say 'You know, yo...
DUANE DAVIS

And, as soon as I could put together the, you know, three or four notes that made up, like, sort of a rock and roll lick, you know, like a Chuck Berry kind of thing, I was off and running. Just completely taken over.

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And, as soon as I could put together the, you know, three or four notes that made up, like, sort of a rock and roll lick, you know, like a Chuck Berry kind of thing, I was off and running. Just completely taken over.

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