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

Don't let the same dog bite you twice.

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

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.

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

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'.

Roll over Beethoven, tell Tchaikovsky the news.

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.

Rock is my child and my grandfather.

Sometime we'll try and reach for things we know we each want and don't deserve.

He could play the guitar just like ringing a bell.

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.

Describe Elvis Presley? He was the greatest who ever was, is or ever will be.

Music is music; you can't change rock and say well this is punk rock and this is acid rock or rockabilly.

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

I would sing the blues if I had the blues.

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

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

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.

This is my 1963 Ford. It was the only car I could A-Ford.

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.