Chuck Berry Quotes

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• I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint.

  Chuck Berry

  Art, Thinking, Paint

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• It's amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.

  Chuck Berry

  Intention, Earnest, Ifs

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

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• Don't let the same dog bite you twice.

  Chuck Berry

  Dog, African American, Musician

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

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• It's gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me.

  Chuck Berry

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Quality

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• It used to be called boogie-woogie, it used to be called blues, used to be called rhythm and blues...It's called rock now.

  Chuck Berry

  Rocks, Rhythm And Blues, Used

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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.

  Chuck Berry

  Things In Life, Two, Important

  "What I've Learned: Chuck Berry" by Tom Junod, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• Everything I wrote about wasn't about me, but about the people listening.

  Chuck Berry

  People, Listening

  "Chuck Berry: Music legend given rock 'n' roll sendoff", www.foxnews.com. April 9, 2017.

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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'.

  Chuck Berry

  Country, Song, Boys

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• Roll over Beethoven, tell Tchaikovsky the news.

  Chuck Berry

  Tchaikovsky, News

  1956 'Roll over Beethoven'.

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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

  Chuck Berry

  Play, Important, Culture

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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.

  Chuck Berry

  Cutting, Grass, Millionaire

  "Everyone Loves You When You're Dead: Journeys into Fame and Madness". Book by Neil Strauss, March 15, 2011.

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• Rock is my child and my grandfather.

  Chuck Berry

  Children, Rocks, Grandfather

  "Chuck Berry, rock 'n' roll pioneer, dead at 90" by Ralph Ellis, Todd Leopold, Tony Marco, www.cnn.com. March 18, 2017.

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• Sometime we'll try and reach for things we know we each want and don't deserve.

  Chuck Berry

  Trying, Deserve

  Source: www.npr.org

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• He could play the guitar just like ringing a bell.

  Chuck Berry

  Guitar, Play, Bells

  Song: Johnny 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.

  Chuck Berry

  Talking, People, Being Ignored

  "What I've Learned: Chuck Berry" by Tom Junod, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• Describe Elvis Presley? He was the greatest who ever was, is or ever will be.

  Chuck Berry

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• Praise doesn't mean anything to me. I don't judge myself.

  Chuck Berry

  Mean, Judging, Praise

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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.

  Chuck Berry

  Rocks, Acid, Punk

  Source: archives.nbclearn.com

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• I would sing the blues if I had the blues.

  Chuck Berry

  Ifs

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

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  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Hail

  Song: School Days

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• He never ever learned to read or write so well, but he could play his guitar like he was ringing a bell.

  Chuck Berry

  Writing, Guitar, Rock And Roll

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• Prejudice doesn't make me mad. It just - I guess 'pisses me off' is the word.

  Chuck Berry

  Mad, Black History, Black

  "What I've Learned: Chuck Berry" by Tom Junod, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• Science and religion are both the same thing. They're there; they're life. If it's not science, it's not a fact.

  Chuck Berry

  Facts, Science And Religion, Ifs

  "What I've Learned: Chuck Berry" by Tom Junod, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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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.

  Chuck Berry

  Kids, Aunt, Parent

  Source: archives.nbclearn.com

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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.

  Chuck Berry

  Guitar, People, Style

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