Want Quotes by Chuck Berry

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

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

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

— Chuck Berry

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

— Chuck Berry

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

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

— Chuck Berry

All I want for Christmas is a rock n roll electric guitar...

— Chuck Berry

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

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

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

If you're going to be mad, at least let the people know what you're mad about.

— Chuck Berry

All were artists, playing foolish, having fights and making love as if the rest of the world had no racial problems whatsoever.

— Chuck Berry

Maybellene, why can't you be true?

— Chuck Berry

There had to be a market in order for you to be successful in a business. The market had to need your business, or…

— Chuck Berry

They're drinkin' home brew from a wooden cup. The folks were dancin' there got all shook up.

— Chuck Berry