Chuck Berry

Don't let the same dog bite you twice.

— Chuck Berry

I should have been a son of Einstein.

— Chuck Berry

Roll over Beethoven, tell Tchaikovsky the news.

— Chuck Berry

Chuck Berry doesn't give interviews.

— Chuck Berry

“dont let the same dog bite you twice”

— Chuck Berry

I would sing the blues if I had the blues.

— Chuck Berry

Rock is my child and my grandfather.

— Chuck Berry

If your playing basic music, its just rock.

— Chuck Berry

My ding-a-ling, my ding-a-ling, won't you play with my ding-a-ling.

— Chuck Berry

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

— Chuck Berry

Rock is rock, and, rock and roll, rock is just short for rock and roll.

— Chuck Berry

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

— Chuck Berry

Describe Elvis Presley? He was the greatest who ever was, is or ever will be.

— Chuck Berry

Prejudice doesn't make me mad. It just - I guess 'pisses me off' is the word.

— Chuck Berry

Everything I wrote about wasn't about me, but about the people listening.

— Chuck Berry

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

— Chuck Berry

Of the five most important things in life, health is first, education or knowledge is second, and wealth is third. I forget…

— Chuck Berry

The Big Band Era is my era. People say, 'Where did you get your style from?' I did the Big Band Era…

— Chuck Berry

You don't just go to the studio and say, 'I'm going to write a hit.' It becomes a hit when people like…

— Chuck Berry

Looking hard for a drive in, searching for a corner cafe, where the hamburgers sizzle on an open grill night and day,

— Chuck Berry

I directed my music to the teen-agers. I was 30 years old when I did 'Maybellene.' My school days had long been…

— 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…

— Chuck Berry

I eat meat daily. I'm not Jewish. I'm not Arabic. What's the kind of person that doesn't eat meat? That's right -…

— Chuck Berry

Music is an important part of our culture and record stores play a vital part in keeping the power of music alive

— Chuck Berry

I just feel I got my inspiration, education and all from others that came before me. And I added my... I don't…

— Chuck Berry

That's the misconceptions that people have, that Chuck Berry went to jail. They're just totally wrong. It might have said something 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…

— Chuck Berry

I wanted to play blues. But I wasn't blue enough. I wasn't like Muddy Waters, people who really had it hard. In…

— 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…

— Chuck Berry

It's not me to toot my horn. The minute you toot your horn, it seems like society will try and disconnect your…

— Chuck Berry

I have so many entities now as grow older you gain responsibilities, you know, real estate, and I like video, and you…

— Chuck Berry

That's all there was in our house: poetry and choir rehearsal and duets and so forth; I listened to Dad and Mother…

— Chuck Berry

The gateway to freedom...was somewhere close to New Orleans where most Africans were sorted through and sold. I had driven through New…

— Chuck Berry

When I was a kid I used to scoot under the table, and whenever company would come around you know or my…

— Chuck Berry

I have lots of ambition!

— Chuck Berry

Up come a flat top, he was movin' up with me.

— Chuck Berry

Maybellene, why can't you be true?

— Chuck Berry

The Man Upstairs is taking care of me.

— Chuck Berry

This is my 1963 Ford. It was the only car I could A-Ford.

— Chuck Berry

Listening to Nat Cole prompted me to sing sentimental songs with distinct diction.

— Chuck Berry