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 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 BERRYUp come a flat top, he was movin’ up with me.
CHUCK BERRYHail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old.
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 BERRYYou know, your ears record. You might can sing a song once you hear it.
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 BERRYRock is rock, and, rock and roll, rock is just short for rock and roll.
CHUCK BERRYMaybellene, why can’t you be true?
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 BERRYI grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn’t paint.
CHUCK BERRYDon’t bother me, leave me alone. Anyway, I’m almost grown.
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 BERRYMy music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents.
CHUCK BERRYLooking hard for a drive in, searching for a corner cafe, where the hamburgers sizzle on an open grill night and day.
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 BERRYIt’s amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.
CHUCK BERRY