One of my realizations is that if you revel over joy, you're going to ache over pain and get killed over hurt. Your span of feelings are going to go just as far one way as the other.
Chuck BerryRead
Rock is my child and my grandfather.
Interpretation
Chuck Berry likens rock music to both a personal creation and an enduring legacy.
In this quote, Chuck Berry expresses his deep connection to rock music, indicating that it is not only a product of his own artistic efforts but also a genre that has roots in the past, influencing generations. The duality of viewing rock as both a 'child' and a 'grandfather' suggests that he sees music as something that evolves yet maintains a heritage, bridging the gap between creation and tradition.
In practice
In a conversation about musical influences at a music festival.
One of my realizations is that if you revel over joy, you're going to ache over pain and get killed over hurt. Your span of feelings are going to go just as far one way as the other.
Everything I wrote about wasn't about me, but about the people listening.
In the Fifties, there were certain places we couldn't ride on the bus, and now there is a possibility of a black man being in the White House. You have to feel good about it.
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.
Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old.
I wanted to play blues. But I wasn't blue enough. I wasn't like Muddy Waters, people who really had it hard. In our house, we had food on the table. We were doing well compared to many. So I concentrated on this fun and frolic, these novelties.
I think the best stories always end up being about the people rather than the event, which is to say character-driven.
When the uncreative tell the creative what to do, it stops being art.
The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. _x000D_ Otherwise, you are dead.
Bottom line, I have to follow what my soul says, or my spirit. And my spirit said that poetry and the arts should be without borders, should be without political borders.
A parallel between color and music can only be relative β just as a violin can give warm shades of tone, so yellow has shades, which can be expressed by various instruments.
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