If you want to release your aggression, get up and dance. That's what rock and roll is all about. Chuck Berry More Quotes by Chuck Berry More Quotes From Chuck Berry 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 black white song I would sing the blues if I had the blues. Chuck Berry ifs Don't bother me, leave me alone. Anyway, I'm almost grown. Chuck Berry leaving-me growth leave-me-alone 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 yesterday song Prejudice doesn't make me mad. It just - I guess 'pisses me off' is the word. Chuck Berry black-history mad black My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents. Chuck Berry simple sound stuff 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. Chuck Berry games long way 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. Chuck Berry like-you writing people Describe Elvis Presley? He was the greatest who ever was, is or ever will be. Chuck Berry Praise doesn't mean anything to me. I don't judge myself. Chuck Berry judging praise mean There have been so many empires, kings are kinda going out of style. Chuck Berry style going-out kings 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. Chuck Berry real responsibility long They're drinkin' home brew from a wooden cup. The folks were dancin' there got all shook up. Chuck Berry cups beer home This is my 1963 Ford. It was the only car I could A-Ford. Chuck Berry car 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. Chuck Berry rocks band home 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?" Chuck Berry black curiosity country All I want for Christmas is a rock n roll electric guitar. Chuck Berry rocks guitar want Up come a flat top, he was movin' up with me. Chuck Berry controversy flats Sometime we'll try and reach for things we know we each want and don't deserve. Chuck Berry deserve trying Music is music and I think music people are the delivers, the actors, when they put their music out they want to insert their character in it. So they call it such and such so you know how they live so to speak. Chuck Berry character people thinking
