black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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.

Chuck Berry

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

Myself Satisfaction Time
Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old.
CHUCK BERRY

Day Deliver Music Myself Old
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.
CHUCK BERRY

Black Custom Intention Myself Tongue White
All were artists, playing foolish, having fights and making love as if the rest of the world had no racial problems whatsoever.
CHUCK BERRY

Artist Fools Love Problem World
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.
CHUCK BERRY

Explanation Guitar Myself People Style
Music is music; you can’t change rock and say well this is punk rock and this is acid rock or rockabilly.
CHUCK BERRY

Change Music Rock Yourself
My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents.
CHUCK BERRY

Music Myself Production Representation Simplicity Symbol
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.
CHUCK BERRY

Audience Ignorance People Talk Yourself
I think I see her, please let me off this bus. Nadine, honey, is that you?
CHUCK BERRY

Myself See Thinking Yourself
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?”
CHUCK BERRY

Audience Black Curiosity Ourselves
I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn’t paint.
CHUCK BERRY

Artist Growth Music Myself Paint Photograph Thinking
Looking hard for a drive in, searching for a corner cafe, where the hamburgers sizzle on an open grill night and day.
CHUCK BERRY

Cafe Day Drive Hard Night Search
If your playing basic music, its just rock.
CHUCK BERRY

Music Play Rock Yourself
Back in the class room, open your books, keep up, the teacher don’t know how mean she looks.
CHUCK BERRY

Class Herself Room Teacher
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.
CHUCK BERRY

Education Forget Health Important Knowledge Life Myself
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.
CHUCK BERRY

Budget Fast Feeling Imagination Myself Safety Yourself

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Chuck Berry Quotes