Chuck Berry Quotes
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They're drinkin' home brew from a wooden cup. The folks were dancin' there got all shook up.
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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.
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I have so many entities now as grow older you gain responsibilities, you know, real estate, and I like video, and you know I want to live a little you know, because time is passing, its not as long as it has been.
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Milo Venus was a beautiful lass, She had the world in the palm of her hand. But she lost both her arms in a wrestling match, To get a brown eyed handsome man.
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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.
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I'm a millionaire, but I cut the grass. And each time I cut it, it's my grass. And that is satisfying.
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Deep down in Louisiana close to New Orleans Way back up in the woods among the evergreens There stood a log cabin made of earth and wood Where lived a country boy named Johnny B. Goode Who never ever learned to read or write so well But he could play the guitar just like a ringing a bell. Go, go, Go, Johnny go...
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It's gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me.
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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?"
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Did I miss the skyscrapers, did I miss the long freeway? From the coast of California to the shores of The Delaware Bay You can bet your life I did, till I got back in the U.S.A.
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My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents.
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Well I looked at my watch, it was 9:54 I said, 'Dance ballerina girl, go go go!' And we rolled, reelin' and a rockin' We was reelin' and a rockin' Rollin' till the break of dawn
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Music is music; you can't change rock and say well this is punk rock and this is acid rock or rockabilly.
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Nadine, honey is that you? Oh, Nadine, honey is that you? Seems like every time I see you Darling, you got something else to do
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When I was a kid I used to scoot under the table, and whenever company would come around you know or my sisters or parents would tell me, go under the table and I'd do it because it was entertainment for the family or aunts or whatever. And one time at the Paramount when I first did it, you know, Brooklyn Paramount, I did it in the act during an instrumental and it got a big ovation and so I coined it as one of the things I should do in the act. And since I've been doing it.
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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.
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My ding-a-ling, my ding-a-ling, won't you play with my ding-a-ling.
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Up come a flat top, he was movin' up with me.
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Describe Elvis Presley? He was the greatest who ever was, is or ever .
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Rock is rock, and, rock and roll, rock is just short for rock and roll.
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Me still alone, me sip on the rum Me wonder when the boat she come To bring me love, oh sweet little thing She rock 'n' roll, she dance and sing She hold me tight, she touch me lips Me eyes they close, me heart she flip Havana moon, Havana moon
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California, California Soon I'll be with you watching your sunset in the evening Movies and show plays, beaches and free ways California, from my home I'll be leaving
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Music is an important part of our culture and record stores play a vital part in keeping the power of music alive
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All I want for Christmas is a rock n roll electric guitar.