A song is a song. But there are some songs, ah, some songs are the greatest. The Beatles song Yesterday. Listen to the lyrics.
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.
More Chuck Berry Quotes
-
-
They’re drinkin’ home brew from a wooden cup. The folks were dancin’ there got all shook up.
CHUCK BERRY -
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 -
Back in the class room, open your books, keep up, the teacher don’t know how mean she looks.
CHUCK BERRY -
Actually I’m writing as best I can, in order to keep the momentum and the career there, but I want to live.
CHUCK BERRY -
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 -
Up come a flat top, he was movin’ up with me.
CHUCK BERRY -
It’s gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me.
CHUCK BERRY -
All were artists, playing foolish, having fights and making love as if the rest of the world had no racial problems whatsoever.
CHUCK BERRY -
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 -
My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents.
CHUCK BERRY -
Everything I wrote about wasn’t about me, but about the people listening.
CHUCK BERRY -
Prejudice doesn’t make me mad. It just – I guess ‘pisses me off’ is the word.
CHUCK BERRY -
If your playing basic music, its just rock.
CHUCK BERRY -
Don’t let the same dog bite you twice.
CHUCK BERRY -
Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old.
CHUCK BERRY