Chuck Berry Quotes

Curiosity provoked me to lay a lot of our country stuff on our predominantly black audience and some of our black audience began whispering "who is that black hillbilly at the Cosmo?"

Could you imagine the way I felt, I couldn't unfasten her safety belt. All the way home I held a grudge, for the safety belt that wouldn't budge.

Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old,

You don't just go to the studio and say, 'I'm going to write a hit.' It becomes a hit when people like your compositions.

Of the five most important things in life, health is first, education or knowledge is second, and wealth is third. I forget the other two.

dont let the same dog bite you twice

Science and religion are both the same thing. They're there; they're life. If it's not science, it's not a fact.

If the people in the audience are talking, you're being ignored. If the people are gazing at you, you've got something they want to hear.

Music is an important part of our culture and record stores play a vital part in keeping the power of music alive

Don't bother me, leave me alone. Anyway, I'm almost grown.

It used to be called boogie-woogie, it used to be called blues, used to be called rhythm and blues ... It's called rock now.

The gateway to freedom ... was somewhere close to New Orleans where most Africans were sorted through and sold. I had driven through New Orleans on tour and I'd been told my great grandfather had lived way back up in the woods among the evergreens in a log cabin. I revived the era with a song about a coloured boy named Johnny B. Goode. My first thought was to make his life follow as my own had come along, but I thought it would seem biased to white fans to say 'coloured boy' and changed it to 'country boy'.

Maybellene, why can't you be true?

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

It's gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me.

Back in the class room, open your books, keep up, the teacher don't know how mean she looks.

Looking hard for a drive in, searching for a corner cafe, where the hamburgers sizzle on an open grill night and day,

He never ever learned to read or write so well, but he could play his guitar like he was ringing a bell.

It's amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.

Prejudice doesn't make me mad. It just - I guess 'pisses me off' is the word.

Everything I wrote about wasn't about me, but about the people listening.

A song is a song. But there are some songs, ah, some songs are the greatest. The Beatles song 'Yesterday.' Listen to the lyrics.

You know, your ears record. You might can sing a song once you hear it.

My ding-a-ling, my ding-a-ling, won't you play with my ding-a-ling.

They're drinkin' home brew from a wooden cup. The folks were dancin' there got all shook up.

I'm a millionaire, but I cut the grass. And each time I cut it, it's my grass. And that is satisfying.

Praise doesn't mean anything to me. I don't judge myself.

I would sing the blues if I had the blues.

The Big Band Era is my era. People say, 'Where did you get your style from?' I did the Big Band Era on guitar. That's the best way I could explain it.