Best Chuck Berry Quotes

The Top Ten

1 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.

2 Rock's so good to me. Rock is my child and my grandfather.

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

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

5 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.

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

7 My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents.

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

9 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.

10 A song is a song. But there are some songs, ah, some songs are the greatest. The Beatles song 'Yesterday.' Listen to the lyrics.

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