Chuck Berry Quotes

Chuck Berry
Chuck Berry
American Musician
Born: Oct 18, 1926
Died: Mar 18, 2017
Me Music People Think You Your
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If you want to release your aggression, get up and dance. That's what rock and roll is all about. Chuck Berry
You Dance Release About Rock Rock And Roll Up Get Roll Want Aggression Your
I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint. Chuck Berry
Music Art Thinking Pictures Until Got Up Artist Grew Paint Found
Music is science. Everything is science. Because science is truth. Chuck Berry
Truth Music Science Everything Because
Praise doesn't mean anything to me. I don't judge myself. Chuck Berry
Myself Me Judge Praise Anything Mean
Music should be made to make people forget their problems, if only for a short while. Chuck Berry
Music People Problems Made Only Make Forget Short While Should
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
You People Being Ignored Gazing Something Talking Audience Got Hear Being Want Ignored
The music played most around St. Louis was country-western and swing. Curiosity provoked me to lay a lot of the country stuff on our predominantly black audience. After they laughed at me a few times, they began requesting the hillbilly stuff. Chuck Berry
Music Me Black Country Hillbilly Few Our Laughed Lay Stuff Most Around Audience Lot Began Louis Provoked Times Curiosity St. Louis After Swing Played
I directed my music to the teen-agers. I was 30 years old when I did 'Maybellene.' My school days had long been over when I did 'School Day,' but I was thinking of them. Chuck Berry
Music Day School Days School Old Long Thinking Directed Had Over Days Been Years Did Them
The Rolling Stones... The Rolling Stones have a reflection to my music; I wouldn't deny it. I think that's honest. Chuck Berry
Music Reflection Think Deny Rolling Stones Rolling Stones Honest
What kind of shorts I wear has nothing to do with music. Chuck Berry
Music Nothing Kind Wear Shorts
The media dresses things up. There's a lot of inaccuracy. Chuck Berry
Dresses Lot Up Inaccuracy Media Things
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
Home Family Me Economics Big Own Way Though Out My Own Had Because Accepted Rock Leave Rock-N-Roll Bands Roll Wanted Loved Them Paid Even Raise
My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents. Chuck Berry
Music Simple Sit Down Stuff Look Sounds Represents Anybody Produce Symbols Set
My dad was the cause of me being in show business. He was not only in poetry but in acting a bit. He was Mordecai in the play 'A Dream of Queen Esther.' Chuck Berry
Me Business Queen Cause Bit Dream Only Poetry He Being Acting Show Show Business Dad Play
That's all there was in our house: poetry and choir rehearsal and duets and so forth; I listened to Dad and Mother discuss things about poetry and delivery and voice and diction - I don't think anyone could know how much it really means. Chuck Berry
Mother Think Our About Voice Poetry Could Delivery Know House How How Much Duet Discuss Diction Listened Anyone Forth Much Really Choir Means Rehearsal Dad Things
It amazes me when I hear people say, 'I want to go out and find out who I am.' I always knew who I was. I was going to be famous if it killed me. Chuck Berry
Me People Say Out Find People Say Knew Always Am Amazes Go Hear Hear People Going Famous Want Who
I love poetry. I love rhyming. Do you know, there are poets who don't rhyme? Shakespeare did not rhyme most of the time, and that's why I do not like him. Chuck Berry
Love Time You Shakespeare Poetry Poets Do You Know Like Know Most Him Did Rhyme Rhyming Who Why
That's the misconceptions that people have, that Chuck Berry went to jail. They're just totally wrong. It might have said something in the large papers in the bigger city headlines and things. But, you take a look at any of the local papers, and you will see that I was acquitted. I never went to jail. Chuck Berry
You People Will Local Chuck Chuck Berry Papers Berry City See Totally Something Misconceptions Take Never Wrong Headlines Look Said Any Jail Just Bigger Might Acquitted Large Things
I've written songs on everything. Menus. Napkins. Little pieces of paper. Chuck Berry
Everything Paper Songs Written Pieces Little
There had to be a market in order for you to be successful in a business. The market had to need your business, or the product of it. Chuck Berry
You Business Market Had Order Successful Product Your Need
Elvis' songs will always be there, and I hope mine will be after I'm gone. Chuck Berry
Hope Will Gone Elvis Mine Songs Always After
I don't want the bottom, so I have to sacrifice the top. Chuck Berry
Sacrifice Top Bottom Want
Respect isn't enough. You've got to have a proprietary interest. Chuck Berry
You Respect Enough Proprietary Got Interest
I didn't connect with the kids. I was in the studio. I never saw the kids. I hoped they liked it, of course. And then I'd go write some more. And then I'd go buy me a home. Very American. Chuck Berry
Buy Home Me Saw Kids Hoped Some More Write Never Studio Liked Course Go Very American Then Connect
I wanted to play blues. But I wasn't blue enough. I wasn't like Muddy Waters, people who really had it hard. In our house, we had food on the table. We were doing well compared to many. So I concentrated on this fun and frolic, these novelties. Chuck Berry
Food People Enough Waters Our Table Had Like Concentrated House Well Doing Were Blue Blues Wanted Really Muddy Muddy Waters Hard Who Fun Many Compared Play
In the Fifties, there were certain places we couldn't ride on the bus, and now there is a possibility of a black man being in the White House. You have to feel good about it. Chuck Berry
Good You Man Feel Good Ride Black White White House Possibility About Feel House Were Being Places Bus Fifties Certain Now
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