Chuck Berry Quotes - Page 2

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

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.

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

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.

There have been so many empires, kings are kinda going out of style.

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

A contract is an ask game, and if it asks for an hour, and I submit to an hour, then it's an hour. When I look at a contract, I look at the obligation - where, when, how long, the compensation. If I agree to it, that's the way it is. I have an obligation. They have an obligation.

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.

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

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.

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

All I want for Christmas is a rock n roll electric guitar.

Rock 'n' roll accepted me and paid me, even though I loved the big bands I went that way because I wanted a home of my own. I had a family. I had to raise them. Let's don't leave out the economics. No way.

Actually I'm writing as best I can, in order to keep the momentum and the career there, but I want to live.

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?"

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.

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

Up come a flat top, he was movin' up with me.

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

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

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.

All were artists, playing foolish, having fights and making love as if the rest of the world had no racial problems whatsoever.

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

Maybellene, why can't you be true?

If your playing basic music, its just rock.