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.
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 music; you can’t change rock and say well this is punk rock and this is acid rock or rockabilly.
CHUCK BERRYPraise doesn’t mean anything to me. I don’t judge myself.
CHUCK BERRYHe never ever learned to read or write so well, but he could play his guitar like he was ringing a bell.
CHUCK BERRYRock is my child and my grandfather.
CHUCK BERRYI grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn’t paint.
CHUCK BERRYThere have been so many empires, kings are kinda going out of style.
CHUCK BERRYI would sing the blues if I had the blues.
CHUCK BERRYYou know, your ears record. You might can sing a song once you hear it.
CHUCK BERRYIf 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 BERRYThey’re drinkin’ home brew from a wooden cup. The folks were dancin’ there got all shook up.
CHUCK BERRYA 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 BERRYMy music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents.
CHUCK BERRYIt’s gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me.
CHUCK BERRYLooking hard for a drive in, searching for a corner cafe, where the hamburgers sizzle on an open grill night and day.
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 BERRY