Chuck Berry Quotes
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The gateway to freedom...was somewhere close to New Orleans where most Africans were sorted through and sold. I had driven through New Orleans on tour and I'd been told my great grandfather had lived way back up in the woods among the evergreens in a log cabin. I revived the era with a song about a coloured boy named Johnny B. Goode. My first thought was to make his life follow as my own had come along, but I thought it would seem biased to white fans to say 'coloured boy' and changed it to 'country boy'.
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She followed him around where he played his guitar Till he got so popular they made him a star Then she could only see him on a TV screen And hoped someday that he'd come back to New Orleans Everybody liked her and was knocking on wood But soon there came a baby for Lady B. Goode
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Sweet little rock and roller, sweet little rock and roller Her daddy don’t have to scold her, her mother can’t hardly hold her She never gets any older, sweet little rock and roller
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Thunderbird saw the Jaguar gainin' speed And waved 'Goodbye, Jaguar' and pulled in the lead Jaguar said, 'You ain't won the race yet' And pulled back around the Bird like a sabre jet Sheriff's front bumper was a yard behind When the T-Bird, Jaguar crossed the line
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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.
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Hey, the band was rockin' Goin' around and around Well, reelin' and a rockin' What a crazy sound Well, they never stopped rockin' Till the moon went down
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There have been so many empires, kings are kinda going out of style.
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Baby doll! When bells ring out the summer free Oh baby doll! Will it end for you and me? We'll sing our old Alma Mater And think of things that used to be
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If your playing basic music, its just rock.
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You know, your ears record. You might can sing a song once you hear it.
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All were artists, playing foolish, having fights and making love as if the rest of the world had no racial problems whatsoever.
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Let me tell you 'bout a girl I know I met her walkin' down a uptown street She's so fine you know I wished she was mine I get shook up every time we meet
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His mother told him, 'Someday you will be a man, And you will be the leader of a big old band. Many people coming from miles around To hear you play your music when the sun go down. Maybe someday your name will be in lights Saying 'Johnny B. Goode tonight'.'
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The little girl's creative, a repertoire that rings, And Hollywood is waiting, to see the way she swings. She'll be graduating, goin' on to higher things, The little girl from Central is gonna take on wings.
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Ow! Have mercy on my little Tulane She's too alive to try to live alone And I know her needs And although she loves me She's gonna try to make it While the poor boy's gone Somebody should tell her to live And I'll understand it And even love her more When I come back home
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He could play the guitar just like ringing a bell.
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Yeah 'n' I'm doin' all right in school. They ain't said I broke no rule. I ain't never been in Dutch. I don't browse around too muchDon't bother me leave me alone Anyway I'm almost grown
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Just like a bolt of thunder and a streak of heat Leo covered Jo Jo with all four feet Jo Jo was screamin' with tears in his eyes Said,' Please Mr. Leo, I apologize'
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Everything I wrote about wasn't about me, but about the people listening.
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Long distance information, give me Memphis Tennessee Help me find the party trying to get in touch with me She could not leave her number, but I know who placed the call 'Cause my uncle took the message and he wrote it on the wall
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She’s got the grownup blues Tight dresses and lipstick She’s sportin’ high-heeled shoes Oh but tomorrow morning She’ll have to change her trend And be sweet sixteen And back in class again.