Chuck berry Quote by Daryl Davis

I never liked blues and I really didn’t like jazz. I liked Chuck Berry.

— Johnny Ramone

When Chuck Berry came along, what he did was more rock & roll than it was blues. It was more exciting. He was like…

— Steve Miller

I never liked blues music, and I really didn't like jazz. I liked Chuck Berry.

— Johnny Ramone

After Chuck Berry died, it seemed web sites popped up like mushrooms to show where he'd taken the guitar introduction to 'Johnny B. Goode'…

— Greil Marcus

Blues artists now try and stay in a box. Back in the day at all the clubs you would see James Brown, Jimi Hendrix,…

— Phil Collen

Blues is a big part of rock and roll. The best rock and roll got its birth in the blues. You hear it in…

— Angus Young

I had heard blues and jazz all my life but I was never aware that it was associated with nightclubs and drinking.

— Nina Simone

There was a euphoria in the music and the way it was delivered, and as the crowds started to get bigger, it fed off…

— Noel Gallagher

I was inspired by the classic rock radio of the Seventies. They separated Chuck Berry and the Beatles from the Led Zeppelins and Bostons…

— Chuck D

We used to play the Savoy Ballroom, and we always had a boogie tune in the set. Bands like Tommy Dorsey used to do…

— Jay McShann

But it was great, we sit in the same dressing room where, like, Johnny Cash sat and Willie Nelson and all those guys. That…

— Alan Vega

The blues was so big in the late '60s that it kinda wore itself out, and people weren't diggin' the blues as much.

— Johnny Winter