Chuck Berry Quotes

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  • Rock is rock, and, rock and roll, rock is just short for rock and roll.

    Source: archives.nbclearn.com
  • Maybellene, why can't you be true?

    Song: Maybellene, Album: Definitive Collection
  • Back in the class room, open your books, keep up, the teacher don't know how mean she looks.

    Song: School Days, Album: Definitive Collection
  • I have so many entities now as grow older you gain responsibilities, you know, real estate, and I like video, and you know I want to live a little you know, because time is passing, its not as long as it has been.

    Source: archives.nbclearn.com
  • Up come a flat top, he was movin' up with me.

    Song: You Can't Catch Me
  • If your playing basic music, its just rock.

    Rocks   Ifs  
    Source: archives.nbclearn.com
  • 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?"

  • All in all it was my intention to hold both the black and the white clientele by voicing the different kinds of songs in their customary tongues.

    Song   White   Black  
    Chuck Berry (1987). “Chuck Berry: The Autobiography”, Random House Value Publishing
  • 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'.

    Country   Song   Boys  
  • Music is music and I think music people are the delivers, the actors, when they put their music out they want to insert their character in it. So they call it such and such so you know how they live so to speak.

    Source: archives.nbclearn.com
  • Sometime we'll try and reach for things we know we each want and don't deserve.

    Trying   Deserve  
    Source: www.npr.org
  • Don't let the same dog bite you twice.

    Chuck Berry (1987). “Chuck Berry: The Autobiography”, Random House Value Publishing
  • Science and religion are both the same thing. They're there; they're life. If it's not science, it's not a fact.

    "What I've Learned: Chuck Berry" by Tom Junod, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.
  • They're drinkin' home brew from a wooden cup. The folks were dancin' there got all shook up.

    Home   Beer   Cups  
  • Rock is my child and my grandfather.

    "Chuck Berry, rock 'n' roll pioneer, dead at 90" by Ralph Ellis, Todd Leopold, Tony Marco, www.cnn.com. March 18, 2017.
  • All were artists, playing foolish, having fights and making love as if the rest of the world had no racial problems whatsoever.

    Chuck Berry (1987). “Chuck Berry: The Autobiography”, Random House Value Publishing
  • This is my 1963 Ford. It was the only car I could A-Ford.

    Car  
  • 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.

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

  • 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.

    "What I've Learned: Chuck Berry" by Tom Junod, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.
  • You know, your ears record. You might can sing a song once you hear it.

    Song   Records   Ears  
  • Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old.

    Song: School Days
  • All I want for Christmas is a rock n roll electric guitar.

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

    "Everyone Loves You When You're Dead: Journeys into Fame and Madness". Book by Neil Strauss, March 15, 2011.
  • Praise doesn't mean anything to me. I don't judge myself.

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

    Simple   Stuff   Sound  
  • I think I see her, please let me off this bus. Nadine, honey, is that you?

    Thinking   Honey   Bus  
    Song: Nadine, Album: Definitive Collection
  • I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint.

    Art   Thinking   Paint  
  • When I was a kid I used to scoot under the table, and whenever company would come around you know or my sisters or parents would tell me, go under the table and I'd do it because it was entertainment for the family or aunts or whatever. And one time at the Paramount when I first did it, you know, Brooklyn Paramount, I did it in the act during an instrumental and it got a big ovation and so I coined it as one of the things I should do in the act. And since I've been doing it.

    Kids   Aunt   Parent  
    Source: archives.nbclearn.com
  • Music is music; you can't change rock and say well this is punk rock and this is acid rock or rockabilly.

    Rocks   Acid   Punk  
    Source: archives.nbclearn.com
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    Chuck Berry

    • Born: October 18, 1926
    • Died: March 18, 2017
    • Occupation: Guitarist