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
Roll over, Beethoven, and tell Tchaikovsky the news.
Amendment 38 will undercut Colorado's representative government and the legislative process in a state that already is one of the easiest to initiate ballot measures. Colorado should instead focus on making statewide policy using measured committee review and legislative processes, while bolstering public trust in our elected officials.
Rock's so good to me. Rock is my child and my grandfather.
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.
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.
Praise doesn't mean anything to me. I don't judge myself.
This is my 1963 Ford. It was the only car I could A-Ford.
Actually I'm writing as best I can, in order to keep the momentum and the career there, but I want to live.
If your playing basic music, its just rock.
Rock is my child and my grandfather.
The gateway to freedom...was somewhere close to New Orleans where most Africans were sorted through and sold. I had driven through New Orleans on tour and I'd been told my great grandfather had lived way back up in the woods among the evergreens in a log cabin. I revived the era with a song about a coloured boy named Johnny B. Goode. My first thought was to make his life follow as my own had come along, but I thought it would seem biased to white fans to say 'coloured boy' and changed it to 'country boy'.
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?"
He never ever learned to read or write so well, but he could play his guitar like he was ringing a bell.