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

Music is science. Everything is science. Because science is truth. — 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

If your playing basic music, its just rock. — 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

I directed my music to the teen–agers. I was 30 years old when I did ‘Maybellene.’ My school days had long been over when I did ‘School Day,’ but I was thinking of them. — Chuck Berry

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

Roll over Beethoven, tell Tchaikovsky the news. — Chuck Berry

Rock is rock, and, rock and roll, rock is just short for rock and roll. — Chuck Berry

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

It’s gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me. — Chuck Berry

Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old. — 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 the heck is a king? I’m a cog in the wheel. — Chuck Berry

I’m thankful for each and every day. We never know when time is up. — 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

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

There has been a great laziness in my soul. Lots of days I could write songs, but I could also take my $400 and play the slot machines at the riverfront casino. — Chuck Berry

Elvis’ songs will always be there, and I hope mine will be after I’m gone. — 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

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

I’ve written songs on everything. Menus. Napkins. Little pieces of paper. — 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

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

Curiosity provoked me to lay a lot of our country stuff on our predominantly black audience and some of our black audience began whispering ‘who is that black hillbilly at the Cosmo? — 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 their customary tongues. — 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 in the White House. You have to feel good about it. — Chuck Berry

It used to be called boogie–woogie, it used to be called blues, used to be called rhythm and blues…It’s called rock now. — 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

Rock is my child and my grandfather. — Chuck Berry

Music is music; you can’t change rock and say well this is punk rock and this is acid rock or rockabilly. — Chuck Berry

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

Maybellene, why can’t you be true? — Chuck Berry

Rock’s so good to me. Rock is my child and my grandfather. — Chuck Berry