Quotes from Chuck Berry

I think my interviews were much better than what some of the writers wrote. I just wanted the truth out.

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

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.

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

Actually I'm writing as best I can, in order to keep the momentum and the career there, but I want to live.

It's not me to toot my horn. The minute you toot your horn, it seems like society will try and disconnect your battery. And if you do not toot your horn, they'll try their darnedest to give you a horn to toot, or say that you should have a horn.

Don't let the same dog bite you twice.

There has been a great laziness in my soul. Lots of days I could write songs, but I could also take my $400 and play the slot machines at the riverfront casino.

One of my realizations is that if you revel over joy, you're going to ache over pain and get killed over hurt. Your span of feelings are going to go just as far one way as the other.

If I wasn't a musician, I'd take up the law. They are the rottenest, wealthiest people in America.

The Man Upstairs is taking care of me.

I added and deleted according to the audiences' response to different gestures, and chose songs to build an act that would constantly stimulate my audience.

The Rolling Stones... The Rolling Stones have a reflection to my music; I wouldn't deny it. I think that's honest.

I used to work at Kroger's. When the store opened, you were there. When I worked in an automobile plant, you punched in. So it showed if you were a minute late. If you have a paid job, you show up.

Don't bother me, leave me alone. Anyway, I'm almost grown.

My father married once. I married once. This is a conviction of ours. This is the way we grew up.

He never learned to read or write so wellBut he could play a guitar just like ringing a bell.

Roll over BeethovenAnd tell Tchaikovsky the news.

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

Don't let the same dog bite you twice.

I eat meat daily. I'm not Jewish. I'm not Arabic. What's the kind of person that doesn't eat meat? That's right - I'm not a vegetarian.

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.

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.

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.