Chuck Berry
Chuck Berry
Charles Edward Anderson "Chuck" Berryis an American guitarist, singer and songwriter and is one of the pioneers of rock and roll music. With songs such as "Maybellene", "Roll Over Beethoven", "Rock and Roll Music"and "Johnny B. Goode", Berry refined and developed rhythm and blues into the major elements that made rock and roll distinctive, with lyrics focusing on teen life and consumerism and music featuring guitar solos and showmanship that were a major influence on subsequent rock music...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth18 October 1926
CitySt. Louis, MO
CountryUnited States of America
Chuck Berry quotes about
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.
Rock is rock, and, rock and roll, rock is just short for rock and roll.
I think I see her, please let me off this bus. Nadine, honey, is that you?
My ding-a-ling, my ding-a-ling, won't you play with my ding-a-ling.
Maybellene, why can't you be true?
Describe Elvis Presley? He was the greatest who ever was, is or ever will be.
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.
Everything I wrote about wasn't about me, but about the people listening.
Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old,
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.
I'm a millionaire, but I cut the grass. And each time I cut it, it's my grass. And that is satisfying.
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.
I would sing the blues if I had the blues.
Music is music; you can't change rock and say well this is punk rock and this is acid rock or rockabilly.