Chuck Berry Quotes About Songs

Quotes about: Songs

• 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'.

  Chuck Berry

  Country, Song, Boys

• 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

  Song, Yesterday

• You know, your ears record. You might can sing a song once you hear it.

  Chuck Berry

  Song, Records, Ears

• 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

  Song, White, Black

  Chuck Berry (1987). “Chuck Berry: The Autobiography”, Random House Value Publishing

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