Top 90 Quotes About Chuck Berry
#1. I waited, and I'm sure Elvis did too, for each Ricky Nelson record like we would a Chuck Berry record or a Fats Domino record, to see what was going on. I used to say to some of the guys that Ricky Nelson learned to sing on million selling records.
Roy Orbison
#2. There's only one true king of rock 'n' roll. His name is Chuck Berry.
Stevie Wonder
#3. One summer I remember, I got exposed to Chuck Berry and Buddy Holly and Buddy Holly was a very very big, made a very big impression on me. Because of a lot of things, you know, the way he looked and his charisma.
Eric Clapton
#4. I wouldn't warm to [Chuck Berry] even if I was cremated next to him.
Keith Richards
#5. Many people we consider legends, such as Jerry Lee Lewis and Chuck Berry, remain so scarred by scandals, injustices and regrets from decades earlier that they're barely able to appreciate their accomplishments.
Neil Strauss
#6. Rock and roll came into my life when I was about 12, 13, when Little Richard and Chuck Berry had just started hitting the shores of England.
Joe Cocker
#7. There is a great book out called 'Everything I Needed to Learn I Learned in Kindergarten,' and I believe that everything I ever needed to learn on guitar was in my first two years of hungry learning: Scotty Moore, Hank Marvin, Chet Atkins, Lenny Breau, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley.
Randy Bachman
#8. Chuck Berry told me if it wasn't for Louis Jordan, he wouldn't have probably ever even got into music. That Louis Jordan changed everything and made him want to become a musician.
Robbie Robertson
#9. NASA even sent Chuck Berry's music on a space probe searching for intelligent life in outer space. Well, now, if they're out there, they're duck walking
William J. Clinton
#10. You didn't know whether Chuck Berry was black or white - it was not a concern.
Keith Richards
#11. My favorite guitar players are Chuck Berry and Brian May and Dave Davies from the Kinks.
Brittany Howard
#12. If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'.
John Lennon
#13. There would be no Rock and Roll without Ike Turner, James Brown, Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, Allen Toussaint, etc. Fake ghetto books and fake ghetto music. Elvis Presley, whom they idol, is merely a karaoke makeover of James Brown and Chuck Berry.
Ishmael Reed
#14. The muse of music isn't just from Greek mythology, but living in people like the Beatles, Chuck Berry, Anita Baker, Aretha Franklin.
Ernie Isley
#16. I tried to emulate my favourite guitar players, the old bluesmen like Blind Willie McTell and Big Bill Broonzy. I used to sit by the record player and copy Chuck Berry and the Beatles. You can never copy someone completely, so you end up developing your own style.
Ronnie Wood
#17. When the fearsome foursome of rock music, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Little Richard, and Jerry Lee Lewis, decided to show up in Toronto for a rock and roll festival, I knew we had to go there to try to get them all on film.
D. A. Pennebaker
#18. Our father taught us how to play. He's also our biggest inspiration and he opened our ears to a lot of older music, like Richie Valens, Chuck Berry, Willie Nelson, and Fats Domino.
Henry Garza
#19. My all-time favorite rock and roll players were Scotty Moore, Chuck Berry and Franny Beecher, and I listened to the country playing of Merle Travis.
Alvin Lee
#20. My first guitar was a Gretsch 6120, and I just loved listening to artists like Elvis, Chuck Berry and Stray Cats.
Drake Bell
#21. I'm a hybrid-genre person, which a lot of people find confusing. I grew up listening to American country music and rock n' roll made between 1955 and 1959. The Everly Brothers and Chuck Berry were my first musical loves and are still what I am most moved by. Roy Orbison came a little bit later.
Teddy Thompson
#22. I remember hearing Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Big Bill Broonzy, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley and not really knowing anything about the geography or the culture of the music. But for some reason it did something to me - it resonated.
Eric Clapton
#23. Of all the early breakthrough rock and roll artists, none is more important to the development of the music than Chuck Berry. He is its greatest songwriter, the main shaper of its instrumental voice, one of its greatest guitarists, and one of its greatest performers.
Cub Koda
#24. I never liked blues and I really didn't like jazz. I liked Chuck Berry.
Johnny Ramone
#25. I found a sound that people really liked - I found this basic concept and all I did was change the lyrics and the melody a little bit. My songs, if you listen to them, they're quite a lot alike, like Chuck Berry.
Buck Owens
#26. We're gonna release a studio album probably a year from now and we've got these recordings that we did with Coco Taylor and Johnny Johnson, who was Chuck Berry's piano player.
James Young
#27. When I first started playing guitar, everyone was playing Chuck Berry and B.B. King licks. I decided I was going to find other avenues of expression.
Robby Krieger
#28. One of my big inspirations was Chuck Berry, and his playing was always about the rhythm and the lyrics. So I've always been that way in my playing, really.
Mick Ralphs
#29. Not to be mean about it, but some great rock and rollers, like Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry, are pretty one-dimensional.
Ian Anderson
#30. singing the songs of the old masters. Fats Waller's 'Ain't That A Shame', Chuck Berry's
Chris Dolan
#31. I watched Elvis Presley become - I listened to Elvis Presley. I watched Chuck Berry become. I listened to Little Richard. I heard that music, and it was part of my upbringing.
Al Jarreau
#32. Elvis may have fueled rock & roll's imagery, but Chuck Berry was its heartbeat and original mindset.
Cub Koda
#33. As time went on, we formed a number of different bands. We played in rival, neighborhood bands. We learned more songs and we learned how to play Chuck Berry music and we learned Ventures songs.
Wayne Kramer
#34. Growing up, I never listened to English music. I was more into Motown, as well as early rock n' roll like Chuck Berry and Little Richard.
Alex Winston
#35. And, as soon as I could put together the, you know, three or four notes that made up, like, sort of a rock and roll lick, you know, like a Chuck Berry kind of thing, I was off and running. Just completely taken over.
Slash
#36. An uninhibited, Chuck Berry devotee but experimented with and broke a lot of ground on feedback techniques and solid variations in tonal and dissonant utilizations. I'm one of the best guitarists in the world, and I play with great emotion.
Ted Nugent
#37. If you're going to do Chuck Berry, you got to, you know, go all out, and the duck walk is just kind of you know, cursory. That's like standing.
Mos Def
#38. I would listen to Little Richard and Fats Domino and Chuck Berry, and I would listen to how they played their riffs, and after I taught myself that, I taught myself to play my own kind of stuff.
Brian Wilson
#39. When I started, all I wanted to do was play like Chuck (Berry)
Keith Richards
#40. I was inspired by the classic rock radio of the Seventies. They separated Chuck Berry and the Beatles from the Led Zeppelins and Bostons and Peter Framptons of the time. In many ways, classic rock became bigger than mainstream rock.
Chuck D
#41. My love of music comes from as long as I remember. I begged my mum to learn piano for a year when I was 4; she wanted to make sure I was serious, and I wanted to be Chuck Berry when I grew up! We were a very musical family; my mum would play guitar, and her, my dad and aunt would sing and harmonize!
Natalia Tena
#42. Berry's On Top is probably my favorite record of all time; it defines rock and roll. A lot of people have done Chuck Berry songs, but to get that feel is really hard. It's the rock and roll thing-the push-pull and the rhythm of it.
Joe Perry
#43. I mean, I haven't been completely lacking in some enjoyment of Chuck Berry or Buddy Holly. But I just didn't pay attention to that period of music, obviously.
Warren Zevon
#44. My influences were Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis and Chuck Berry.
Micky Dolenz
#45. The blood of the guitar was Chuck Berry red.
Meat Loaf
#46. Back then, I, most rockers loved Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis ... you know in the '60s.
Joe Cocker
#47. There was a time in America not long ago when rock 'n' roll was called race music, and white kids who wanted to go see Chuck Berry were completely forbidden.
David Bowie
#48. My momma always said, 'You and Elvis are pretty good, but y'all ain't no Chuck Berry.
Jerry Lee Lewis
#49. You could put Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley on one side of the stage, and James Brown on the other, and you wouldn't even notice the others were there!
Bill Wyman
#50. The best musicians in the world were raised on the same kind of music I was raised on and that is black, soulful, authoritative, ultra-tight, ferocious, uppity, defiant music that from the Howlin' Wolf, the Muddy Waters, the Lightnin' Hopkins, the Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, and Little Richard.
Ted Nugent
#51. He never ever learned to read or write so well, but he could play his guitar like he was ringing a bell.
Chuck Berry
#52. You know, your ears record. You might can sing a song once you hear it.
Chuck Berry
#53. 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 Berry
#54. Looking hard for a drive in, searching for a corner cafe, where the hamburgers sizzle on an open grill night and day,
Chuck Berry
#55. Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old,
Chuck Berry
#56. Everything I wrote about wasn't about me, but about the people listening.
Chuck Berry
#57. Science 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
#58. 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
#59. Back in the class room, open your books, keep up, the teacher don't know how mean she looks.
Chuck Berry
#60. It 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 Berry
#62. It's gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me.
Chuck Berry
#63. My ding-a-ling, my ding-a-ling, won't you play with my ding-a-ling.
Chuck Berry
#65. If 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 Berry
#66. My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents.
Chuck Berry
#67. Could you imagine the way I felt, I couldn't unfasten her safety belt. All the way home I held a grudge, for the safety belt that wouldn't budge.
Chuck Berry
#68. Praise doesn't mean anything to me. I don't judge myself.
Chuck Berry
#69. Prejudice doesn't make me mad. It just - I guess 'pisses me off' is the word.
Chuck Berry
#71. Don't bother me, leave me alone. Anyway, I'm almost grown.
Chuck Berry
#72. I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint.
Chuck Berry
#73. I'm a millionaire, but I cut the grass. And each time I cut it, it's my grass. And that is satisfying.
Chuck Berry
#74. Describe Elvis Presley? He was the greatest who ever was, is or ever will be.
Chuck Berry
#75. 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 Berry
#76. Rock's so good to me. Rock is my child and my grandfather.
Chuck Berry
#77. All were artists, playing foolish, having fights and making love as if the rest of the world had no racial problems whatsoever.
Chuck Berry
#78. He could play the guitar just like ringing a bell.
Chuck Berry
#79. Music is an important part of our culture and record stores play a vital part in keeping the power of music alive
Chuck Berry
#80. 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
#81. They're drinkin' home brew from a wooden cup. The folks were dancin' there got all shook up.
Chuck Berry
#82. Up come a flat top, he was movin' up with me.
Chuck Berry
#83. 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
#84. 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
#85. I would sing the blues if I had the blues.
Chuck Berry
#86. I think I see her, please let me off this bus. Nadine, honey, is that you?
Chuck Berry
#87. Roll over Beethoven, tell Tchaikovsky the news.
Chuck Berry
#88. 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
#89. Of the five most important things in life, health is first, education or knowledge is second, and wealth is third. I forget the other two.
Chuck Berry
#90. It's amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.
Chuck Berry
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