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 BERRYThe 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 BERRYBack in the class room, open your books, keep up, the teacher don’t know how mean she looks.
CHUCK BERRYUp come a flat top, he was movin’ up with me.
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 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 BERRYPrejudice doesn’t make me mad. It just – I guess ‘pisses me off’ is the word.
CHUCK BERRYHe never ever learned to read or write so well, but he could play his guitar like he was ringing a bell.
CHUCK BERRYI think I see her, please let me off this bus. Nadine, honey, is that you?
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 BERRYI would sing the blues if I had the blues.
CHUCK BERRYIt’s gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me.
CHUCK BERRYIf your playing basic music, its just rock.
CHUCK BERRYAll I want for Christmas is a rock n roll electric guitar.
CHUCK BERRYRock ‘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 BERRYSometime we’ll try and reach for things we know we each want and don’t deserve.
CHUCK BERRYThey’re drinkin’ home brew from a wooden cup. The folks were dancin’ there got all shook up.
CHUCK BERRY