Listening to Nat Cole prompted me to sing sentimental songs with distinct diction. — Chuck Berry Copy Share Image
I added and deleted according to the audiences' response to different gestures, and chose songs to build an act that would constantly… — Chuck Berry Copy Share Image
I've written songs on everything. Menus. Napkins. Little pieces of paper. — Chuck Berry Copy Share Image
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… — Chuck Berry Copy Share Image
It amazes me when I hear people say, 'I want to go out and find out who I am.' I always knew who I… — Chuck Berry Copy Share Image
If I wasn't a musician, I'd take up the law. They are the rottenest, wealthiest people in America. — Chuck Berry Copy Share Image
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… — Chuck Berry Copy Share Image
People said I was king, but I was never king, and I say I'm the prime minister. — Chuck Berry Copy Share Image
All in all it was my intention to hold both the black and the white clientele by voicing the different kinds of songs in… — Chuck Berry Copy Share Image
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… — Chuck Berry Copy Share Image
In the Fifties, there were certain places we couldn't ride on the bus, and now there is a possibility of a black man being… — Chuck Berry Copy Share Image
If you're going to be mad, at least let the people know what you're mad about. — Chuck Berry Copy Share Image
All were artists, playing foolish, having fights and making love as if the rest of the world had no racial problems whatsoever. — Chuck Berry Copy Share Image
