Best 41 quotes of Chuck Berry on MyQuotes

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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?

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

Don't let the same dog bite you twice.

He could play the guitar just like ringing a bell.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Rock is my child and my grandfather.

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.

Roll over Beethoven, tell Tchaikovsky the news.

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

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

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.

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'.

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

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

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.

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.

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