Great Quotes About Chuck Berry

John Lennon: "If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it Chuck Berry."

Bob Seger: "All of Chuck's children are out there playing his licks."

Anthony Kiedis: "Chuck Berry is a musical scientist who discovered a cure for the blues."

Joan Jett: "The epitome of what it is to be a rock and roll guitar player, songwriter and singer."

Eric Burdon: "I learned more from Chuck Berry about America than I could have from the U.S. Information Service in London."

Joe Cocker: "Back then, I, most rockers loved Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis...you know in the 60's."

Keith Richards: "You didn't know whether Chuck Berry was black or white - it was not a concern."

Johnny Ramone: "I never liked blues and I really didn't like jazz. I like Chuck Berry."

Ronnie Wood: "I used to sit by the record player and copy Chuck Berry and the Beatles."

Chuck D: "I was inspired by the classic rock radio of the seventies. They separated Chuck Berry and the Beatles from the Led Zepplins and Bostons and Peter Framptons.

Stevie Wonder: "There's only one true king of rock and roll. His name is Chuck Berry."

Chuck Berry Quotes

"I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint."

"Rock is my child and my grandfather."

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

"Praise don't mean anything to me. I don't judge myself."

"I would sing the blues if I had the blues."

"I've always liked words. I even like some words that aren't in the dictionary."

"Play the songs they want to hear. That makes them feel they're getting what they came for."

"I wouldn't buy one of my records to save my life."


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

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

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

Lou Reed Quotes

"One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz."

"I think that everything happens for a reason, everything happens when it's going to happen."

"One of my rules: Never listen to your old stuff."

"That's why I survived because I still believe I've got something to say."

"I have no control over the audience. I have no idea what they think."

"Chuck Berry is still out there playing. No one can play his music like he does. My stuff's the same way."




"Raymond Chandler managed to write about L.A. his whole career. Should I keep going writing about New York? Is that what I should be doing? Songwriting doesn't work that way."

"I'm writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write about is true or you wouldn't pay any attention at all."

"I wanted to be an actor. That was my real goal. But I wasn't any good at it, so I wrote my own material and acted through that."

"My week beats your year."

Brian Wilson Quotes

"Musically, I am the Beach Boys."

"I went through a lot of changes in the years from when I first started out."

"I couldn't surf, I never learned how."

"That's an important lesson; If you believe in what you're doing, don't let other people stop you."

"I'd earned over a million dollars by the time I was old enough to vote."

"You know Chuck, Buddy, and Elvis paved the road. The roots are deep inside us. It's the rhythm in our soul."

"A voice or a song can be so comforting to someone who really needs it."


"I think because I felt so sad I had to bring out my feelings, and try to create music that would make me and all my friends feel better."

"The Beatles were part of that whole competition thing. Rubber Soul blew my mind. It really made me wanna record; it made me wanna cut. It sounds like a collection of songs that belong together, and it was an uplifting feeling. So I thought I'd make a collection of songs, called Pet Sounds, together."

"Surfer Girl symbolized a mystical place that I have never been to but sung about. Maybe I was there, I don't know. I could have been and not known it."

"I'm not a genius. I'm just a hard working guy."