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Best 60 Quotes by Chuck Berry – Page 2 of 2

“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.”

“Maybe it is true what they say, that playing these Chuck Berry songs is easy. But try singing them. The words come out hard, like bullets.”

“Music is science. Everything is science. Because science is truth.”

“Music should be made to make people forget their problems, if only for a short while.”

“My 12th was my most Christian and most boring year of my life. Try as I did, day after day, to cling to righteousness, I was washed down in suds of sinful surroundings.”

“My dad was the cause of me being in show business. He was not only in poetry but in acting a bit. He was Mordecai in the play 'A Dream of Queen Esther.”

“My first job at Gleason's Bar in Cleveland was $800 a week, when I was making $92 a week with overtime at the automobile plant.”

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

“My singing days have passed. My voice is gone. My throat is worn. And my lungs are going fast.”

“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.”

“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.”

“People don't want to see 17 pieces in neckties. They wanna see some jeans, some gettin' down, and some wigglin'.”

“People said I was king, but I was never king, and I say I'm the prime minister.”

“Rather than have joy, I would rather be absent of pain.”

“Remember that my view, the only true view I can see with, is through the black eyes that I have.”

“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.”

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

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

“That's all there was in our house: poetry and choir rehearsal and duets and so forth; I listened to Dad and Mother discuss things about poetry and delivery and voice and diction – I don't think anyone could know how much it really means.”

“That's the misconceptions that people have, that Chuck Berry went to jail. They're just totally wrong. It might have said something in the large papers in the bigger city headlines and things. But, you take a look at any of the local papers, and you will see that I was acquitted. I never went to jail.”

“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.”

“The first thing I heard was spiritual music, which was imbedded. The second thing I heard was swing. And shortly, along with that, I began to hear the blues. And then I began to hear Latin music. Each one left its mark.”

“The Man Upstairs is taking care of me.”

“The music played most around St. Louis was country-western and swing. Curiosity provoked me to lay a lot of the country stuff on our predominantly black audience. After they laughed at me a few times, they began requesting the hillbilly stuff.”

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

“The world has done nothing to me that I haven't done with the world.”

“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.”

“What kind of shorts I wear has nothing to do with music.”

“What the heck is a king? I'm a cog in the wheel.”

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

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