It’s gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me.
CHUCK BERRYIt’s gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me.
CHUCK BERRYRock is rock, and, rock and roll, rock is just short for rock and roll.
CHUCK BERRYActually I’m writing as best I can, in order to keep the momentum and the career there, but I want to live.
CHUCK BERRYScience and religion are both the same thing. They’re there; they’re life. If it’s not science, it’s not a fact.
CHUCK BERRYAll I want for Christmas is a rock n roll electric guitar.
CHUCK BERRYCuriosity 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 BERRYDon’t let the same dog bite you twice.
CHUCK BERRYIt used to be called boogie-woogie, it used to be called blues, used to be called rhythm and blues…It’s called rock now.
CHUCK BERRYYou 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.
CHUCK BERRYMusic is an important part of our culture and record stores play a vital part in keeping the power of music alive.
CHUCK BERRYAll 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 BERRYPrejudice doesn’t make me mad. It just – I guess ‘pisses me off’ is the word.
CHUCK BERRYBack in the class room, open your books, keep up, the teacher don’t know how mean she looks.
CHUCK BERRYMaybellene, why can’t you be true?
CHUCK BERRYIf your playing basic music, its just rock.
CHUCK BERRYHe never ever learned to read or write so well, but he could play his guitar like he was ringing a bell.
CHUCK BERRY