Chuck Berry Quotes

Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old.

Chuck Berry

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• Enjoy the satisfaction that comes from doing little things well.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Enjoy
  • Doing
  • Little Things

• Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • Love
  • Dying
  • For Her

• I am definitely a perfectionist, and I do like things a certain way. But as I have got older, I would say that I am a little bit less of a control freak.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Control
  • Older
  • Freak

• An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.

  

  Mae West
  • Performance
  • Worth
  • Promises

• The two championship contenders, Dario Franchitti and Will Power, are starting right next to each other in the middle of the grid. Honestly, if I can be fast enough early in the race to be able to get up there and latch onto those two, it will be pure entertainment. It's going to be a pack race, and you never know how that's going to turn out.

  

  Dan Wheldon
  • Up
  • Power
  • Know

• I do like being busy. I'm not the kind of person who just sits around and goes to a spa when I'm not working.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Kind
  • Working
  • Busy

• Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • May
  • New
  • Back

• I have such a crush on Shirley Manson. I think she's the coolest thing.

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • Think
  • Crush
  • Shirley Manson

• I just like putting outfits together without much thought and seeing what the outcome is.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Together
  • Thought
  • Seeing

• You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Fun
  • Journey
  • Enjoy

• I remember listening to Miles Davis in the car with my dad. I had just done my Grade 5 piano exam, and I was quite cocky. I said, 'It sounds like he's played the wrong note there.' I remember the look of horror on my dad's face, and thinking, 'Wow, I have to figure out why that is not acceptable.'

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Thinking
  • Done
  • Why

• We are different people - you get a different take on the band whoever you speak to. Somehow, at the end of it, it goes through the filtering process and out comes the Radiohead thing.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • People
  • Different
  • Band

• Art for me is like breathing.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Art
  • Me
  • Breathing

• After school, I got a job in a shop in Hollywood and shared an apartment with a friend. I promptly lost my job and got evicted from my apartment, and that happened several times.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • School
  • Job
  • Lost

• I'm an accidental entrepreneur.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Entrepreneur
  • Accidental

• The actual producing, mixing, and mastering is hard work, harder than what I do.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Work
  • Hard
  • Hard Work

• You had better love the music... because sometimes the music doesn't love you.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Music
  • Sometimes
  • Better

• What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't.

  

  Cab Calloway
  • Love
  • Violence
  • Opera

• Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Art
  • Poetry
  • Shadows

• Long ago, I made up my mind that when things were said involving only me, I would pay no attention to them, except when valid criticism was carried by which I could profit. (14 January 1942)

  

  Eleanor Roosevelt
  • Up
  • Long
  • Mind

• Seed is not just the source of life. It is the very foundation of our being.

  

  Vandana Shiva
  • Life

• I don't think I understood guitar rock as well as I probably should have. I don't think I understood bands like Led Zeppelin. In their era, everyone had such a regard for them because of them ushering in rock n' roll and this larger-than-life lifestyle. But then they had these songs that would just not stop. I didn't fully get it.

  

  Pete Wentz Fall Out Boy
  • Life
  • Stop
  • Rock

• TV is the only thing that's really alive, because it's happening as you go. You don't know the end, so another day brings a new life to it. Unlike a play, unlike a movie, where you know the beginning, middle, and end.

  

  Margo Martindale
  • Life
  • Movie
  • Beginning

• Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old.

  

  Chuck Berry
  • Rock