Chuck Berry Quotes
I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint.
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.
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.
Music is an important part of our culture and record stores play a vital part in keeping the power of music alive
I'm a millionaire, but I cut the grass. And each time I cut it, it's my grass. And that is satisfying.
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.
He never ever learned to read or write so well, but he could play his guitar like he was ringing a bell.
Science and religion are both the same thing. They're there; they're life. If it's not science, it's not a fact.
Music is music; you can't change rock and say well this is punk rock and this is acid rock or rockabilly.
They're drinkin' home brew from a wooden cup. The folks were dancin' there got all shook up.
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.
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.
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 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.
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?"
My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents.
Looking hard for a drive in, searching for a corner cafe, where the hamburgers sizzle on an open grill night and day.
All were artists, playing foolish, having fights and making love as if the rest of the world had no racial problems whatsoever.
Actually I'm writing as best I can, in order to keep the momentum and the career there, but I want to live.
Back in the class room, open your books, keep up, the teacher don't know how mean she looks.
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.
I love poetry. I love rhyming. Do you know, there are poets who don't rhyme? Shakespeare did not rhyme most of the time, and that's why I do not like him.
My dad was the cause of me being in show business. He was not only in poetry but in acting a bit. He was Mordecai in the play 'A Dream of Queen Esther.'
