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 BERRYIt’s amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.
More Chuck Berry Quotes
-
-
Praise doesn’t mean anything to me. I don’t judge myself.
CHUCK BERRY -
Rock is my child and my grandfather.
CHUCK BERRY -
Music is an important part of our culture and record stores play a vital part in keeping the power of music alive.
CHUCK BERRY -
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.
CHUCK BERRY -
Music is music; you can’t change rock and say well this is punk rock and this is acid rock or rockabilly.
CHUCK BERRY -
He never ever learned to read or write so well, but he could play his guitar like he was ringing a bell.
CHUCK BERRY -
Prejudice doesn’t make me mad. It just – I guess ‘pisses me off’ is the word.
CHUCK BERRY -
Up come a flat top, he was movin’ up with me.
CHUCK BERRY -
Back in the class room, open your books, keep up, the teacher don’t know how mean she looks.
CHUCK BERRY -
Don’t bother me, leave me alone. Anyway, I’m almost grown.
CHUCK BERRY -
It’s gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me.
CHUCK BERRY -
I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn’t paint.
CHUCK BERRY -
I would sing the blues if I had the blues.
CHUCK BERRY -
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 -
Rock is rock, and, rock and roll, rock is just short for rock and roll.
CHUCK BERRY