and when i first saw him, i changed my career trajectory. i was going to be a computer programmer. back then, computers were of course twice as big as this room. or an espionage agent. each one was pulling at me with equal force. i was immobilized and i was trying to figure out how to do both. back then there was no way. today you can through cyber espionage. but, i saw chuck berry somewhere along the pathway as a kid and said, that is what i want to do. it was chuck berry and another fellow, elvis presley, i saw him, too. they had made millions upon millions of people happy with their music. they touched them without even knowing them. that fascinated me. i thought, i want to be able to bring joy to people whether i meet them or not. brian: what was the story of your first meeting with him? daryl: he came to the university of maryland. it was going to be chuck berry and jerry lee lewis. i got down there super early, hoping i would be able to sneak in and meet him during soun
and when i first saw him, i changed my career trajectory. i was going to be a computer programmer. back then, computers were of course twice as big as this room. or an espionage agent. each one was pulling at me with equal force. i was immobilized and i was trying to figure out how to do both. back then there was no way. today you can through cyber espionage. but, i saw chuck berry somewhere along the pathway as a kid and said, that is what i want to do. it was chuck berry and another fellow, elvis presley, i saw him, too. they had made millions upon millions of people happy with their music. they touched them without even knowing them. that fascinated me. i thought, i want to be able to bring joy to people whether i meet them or not. brian: what was the story of your first meeting with him? daryl: he came to the university of maryland. it was going to be chuck berry and jerry lee lewis. i got down there super early, hoping i would be able to sneak in and meet him during soun
, the man was a genius. many people can say they wrote a song, they played a song, but few people can claim they invented a genre of music. we would not have rock n roll without chuck berry. when i first heard chuck berry, i fell in love with that music. when i saw him, i changed my whole career trajectory. i was going to be a computer programmer back when computers were twice as big as this room, or in espionage agent. each one was pulling at me with equal force. i kept trying to figure out how can i do both? back then there was no way. today you can through cyber espionage. i saw a very along that halfway as a kid pathway as a kid. that is what i wanted to do. made millionsd upon millions of people all over people happy with their music. they touched them without even knowing them. that fascinated me. i thought, i want to be able to bring joy to people whether i meet them or not. brian: what was the story of your first meeting with him? daryl: he came to the university o
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c-span. announcer: this week on q&a, musician and lecturer daryl davis. for over 30 years, he has befriended members of the kkk to try to understand their hatred into convince them to change their ways. brian: daryl davis, what impact did chuck berry have on your life? daryl: chuck berry had a very profound impact on me. the man was a genius. not many people can say they played a song that invented a genre of music. chuck berry did that. we would not have rock n roll without chuck berry. when i first heard chuck berry, i fell in love with that music , and when i first saw him, i changed my career trajectory. i was going to be a computer programmer. back then, computers were of course twice as big as this room. or an espionage agent. each one was pulling at me with equal force. i was immobilized and i was trying to figure out how to do both. back then there was no way. today you can through cyber espionage. but, i saw chuck berry somewhere along the pathway as a kid and