Chuck Berry Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages von Chuck Berry:

If you want to release your aggression, get up and dance. That's what rock and roll is all about.

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.

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 discuss things about poetry and delivery and voice and diction - I don't think anyone could know how much it really means.

Chuck Berry

Remember that my view, the only true view I can see with, is through the black eyes that I have.

Chuck Berry

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

Chuck Berry

My first job at Gleason's Bar in Cleveland was $800 a week, when I was making $92 a week with overtime at the automobile plant.

Chuck Berry

I have lots of ambition!

Chuck Berry

The Big Band Era is my era. People say, 'Where did you get your style from?' I did the Big Band Era on guitar. That's the best way I could explain it.

Chuck Berry

If the people in the audience are talking, you're being ignored. If the people are gazing at you, you've got something they want to hear.

Chuck Berry

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

Chuck Berry

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

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 - I'm not a vegetarian.

Chuck Berry

The Rolling Stones... The Rolling Stones have a reflection to my music; I wouldn't deny it. I think that's honest.

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 battery. And if you do not toot your horn, they'll try their darnedest to give you a horn to toot, or say that you should have a horn.

Chuck Berry

I didn't connect with the kids. I was in the studio. I never saw the kids. I hoped they liked it, of course. And then I'd go write some more. And then I'd go buy me a home. Very American.

Chuck Berry

The Man Upstairs is taking care of me.

Chuck Berry

In a way, I feel it might be ill-mannered to try and top myself. The music I play is a ritual. Something that matters to people in a special way. I wouldn't want to interfere with that.

Chuck Berry

Don't let the same dog bite you twice.

Chuck Berry

If you want to release your aggression, get up and dance. That's what rock and roll is all about.

Chuck Berry

Rather than have joy, I would rather be absent of pain.

Chuck Berry

Maybe it is true what they say, that playing these Chuck Berry songs is easy. But try singing them. The words come out hard, like bullets.

Chuck Berry

My father married once. I married once. This is a conviction of ours. This is the way we grew up.

Chuck Berry

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

Chuck Berry

My singing days have passed. My voice is gone. My throat is worn. And my lungs are going fast.

Chuck Berry

A song is a song. But there are some songs, ah, some songs are the greatest. The Beatles song 'Yesterday.' Listen to the lyrics.

Chuck Berry

One of my realizations is that if you revel over joy, you're going to ache over pain and get killed over hurt. Your span of feelings are going to go just as far one way as the other.

Chuck Berry

I would sing the blues if I had the blues.

Chuck Berry

Respect isn't enough. You've got to have a proprietary interest.

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 was. I was going to be famous if it killed me.

Chuck Berry

I love poetry. I love rhyming. Do you know, there are poets who don't rhyme? Shakespeare did not rhyme most of the time, and that's why I do not like him.

Chuck Berry

My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents.

Chuck Berry

I'm thankful for performing as long as I am allowed.

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 I look at a contract, I look at the obligation - where, when, how long, the compensation. If I agree to it, that's the way it is. I have an obligation. They have an obligation.

Chuck Berry

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.

Chuck Berry

What kind of shorts I wear has nothing to do with music.

Chuck Berry