If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'.
John Lennon
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If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'.
JOHN LENNON Chuck Berry doesn't give interviews.
CHUCK BERRY Growing up, I never listened to English music. I was more into Motown, as well as early rock n' ...
ALEX WINSTON When you sit down and think about what rock 'n' roll music really is, then you have to chang...
LITTLE RICHARD My all-time favorite rock and roll players were Scotty Moore, Chuck Berry and Franny Beecher, and I ...
ALVIN LEE I'm influenced by Django Reinhardt, Stephane Grappelly, Roland Kirk, John Coltrane, B.B. King, a...
DICKEY BETTS Rock and roll came into my life when I was about 12, 13, when Little Richard and Chuck Berry had jus...
JOE COCKER You didn't know whether Chuck Berry was black or white - it was not a concern.
KEITH RICHARDS If you're going to do Chuck Berry, you got to, you know, go all out, and the duck walk is just k...
MOS DEF Rock'n'roll has to be destroyed and rebuilt in my name if it's ever gonna accomplish any...
GG ALLIN You can't have rock and roll without drugs, you can't have rock and roll without sex.
RICK JAMES There's rock n' roll in hip-hop, there's rock n' roll in pop music, there's rock...
JOHN VARVATOS And, as soon as I could put together the, you know, three or four notes that made up, like, sort of ...
SLASH The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is marketing. You've got a bunch of faceless people in a back roo...
PAUL STANLEY Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's w...
ELVIS PRESLEY Not to be mean about it, but some great rock and rollers, like Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry, are prett...
IAN ANDERSON Energy is so important. If you don't have it, don't bother with rock and roll.
YOKO ONO If you don't own the stage, you shouldn't be in rock n' roll.
GRACE SLICK I wanted to have the adoration of John Lennon but have the anonymity of Ringo Starr. I didn't wa...
KURT COBAIN When the fearsome foursome of rock music, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Little Richard, and Jerry Lee Lew...
D. A. PENNEBAKER The first rock stars were incredibly theatrical. Little Richard and Chuck Berry and Elvis Presley - ...
JOHN CAMERON MITCHELL I saw rock n' roll future and its name is Bruce Springsteen.
JON LANDAU If you truly dig what you are doing, if you lay it out that way, nobody can not respond. That's ...
CASS ELLIOT When people call something a 'fail,' it's because you tried to accomplish something but ...
BEN HUH Any time you play your horn, it helps you. If you get down, you can help yourself even in a rock ...
JOHN COLTRANE I'm a hybrid-genre person, which a lot of people find confusing. I grew up listening to American...
TEDDY THOMPSON I leaned over and said, 'sorry about that,' but Lennon didn't even move and said it was all right. I...
JOHN LENNON We thought that's the way you were supposed to be if you were in a rock 'n' roll band. F...
DAVID JOHANSEN You can't stop rock-n-roll!
DEE SNIDER Anybody who has ever played in bars has played 'Keep Your Hands to Yourself.' It's a mon...
CHRIS STAPLETON I never liked blues and I really didn't like jazz. I liked Chuck Berry.
JOHNNY RAMONE Every actor I know pretty much wants to be a rock n' roll star, and we'd all give it up to b...
DAVID COSTABILE If you're a photographer, they give you a camera. If you're a writer, they give you a typewr...
DOUG HARVEY If you really want to annoy me, ask me when I'm going to retire from rock n' roll.
BRUCE DICKINSON Every time a new rock singer comes out they don't say, 'Are you the new John Lennon?' Ev...
MICHAEL BUBLE If you're an impressionistic painter and you want to paint expressionism, you've got to chan...
TOBIN BELL If it's illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail!
KURT COBAIN Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON It's bad enough being conned into singing an anti-war message by John Lennon when you think you&...
IAN WATSON Guitar music or rock n' roll or whatever you want to call it sort of goes away with trends, but ...
ALEX TURNER Edgar asked me, 'Do you know anything about John Lennon,' ... I said, 'I know everything about John ...
DON SCARDINO My momma always said, 'You and Elvis are pretty good, but y'all ain't no Chuck Berry.
JERRY LEE LEWIS If you want to release your aggression, get up and dance. That's what rock and roll is all about...
CHUCK BERRY If you rock suck his cock and i'll give u another sock
BOBMCFRANK MCONALD There's always gonna be rock n' roll bands, there's always gonna be kids that love rock ...
DAVE GROHL See, to me, rock'n'roll doesn't have any point. It's just fun. It has a million diff...
EVAN DANDO I don't think we listened to any rock n' roll at all in the early days. It was Miles Davis a...
BUTCH TRUCKS You get callbacks, and they either give it to what they call a 'name' performer, or they dec...
TANYA FISCHER Rock and roll might be summed up as monotony tinged with hysteria.
VANCE PACKARD You see, rock and roll isn't a career or hobby - it's a life force. It's something very ...
THE EDGE It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
JUDE WATSON I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicio...
MANUEL PUIG Chuck Berry told me if it wasn't for Louis Jordan, he wouldn't have probably ever even got i...
ROBBIE ROBERTSON I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ...
MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes...
MANUEL PUIG I don't know if it's possible to live the rock 'n roll lifestyle and still be romantic.
ADAM LEVINE That's the great thing with the WWE. They want you to be like John Cena, they want you to be lik...
A.J. STYLES That's the misconceptions that people have, that Chuck Berry went to jail. They're just tota...
CHUCK BERRY This is the rock 'n' roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no tex...
KEITH RICHARDS I'm the greatest rock and roll drummer on the planet and you suck.
TRE COOL You can't have rock and roll without drugs, you can't have rock and roll without sex.
RICK JAMES If anyone asks you what kind of music you play, tell him 'pop.' Don't tell him 'rock...
BUDDY HOLLY It's a cruel, heartless world out there in commercial rock 'n' roll, and when you take a...
TINA WEYMOUTH It's like people call me a rock star or this or that. And I go, 'Don't call me that. I d...
MEAT LOAF I had written a tune called 'Shake, Rattle and Roll,' but the white stations refused to play...
JESSE STONE I never thought of it as God. I didn't know what to call it. I don't believe in devils, but ...
GENE WILDER Every performer who ever performed in rock and roll or even close to it is lying if they tell you th...
MAC DAVIS How can you have a rock n' roll circus without a midget?
NIKKI SIXX I wasn't a rock 'n' roll girl. I said, Neil Young, Neil Young, where do I know that name...
CARRIE SNODGRESS It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea.
JUDE WATSON All we are saying is give peace a chance. -John Lennon.
JOHN LENNON I'm introverted, and I pay attention to my muse... Record companies used to go mad and say '...
ROBERT PALMER If you're looking for light entertainment, you can't get much lighter than 'Bye Bye Bird...
TERRY TEACHOUT If rock-and-roll is well done, there's nothing so terribly wrong with that kind of music. But th...
KATE SMITH I was inspired by the classic rock radio of the Seventies. They separated Chuck Berry and the Beatle...
CHUCK D It's a cliche, but John Lennon is my hero. He was so rebellious, so outspoken and so publicly op...
EMUN ELLIOTT Back then, I, most rockers loved Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis... you know in the ...
JOE COCKER The soldiers that didn't come back were the heroes. It's a roll of the dice. If a bullet has...
BOB FELLER It's a rock 'n' roll thing to have one-night stands.
RICK SPRINGFIELD Before 'Grey's Anatomy,' I was doing musicals, plays, commercials, you name it.
CHANDRA WILSON Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happ...
ELVIS PRESLEY It's only rock and roll, my god! It's not rocket science.
STEVEN ADLER I have always believed that there is nothing greater than a life in rock n' roll - it has to be ...
ATUL GAWANDE Hard rock will always be hard rock, but you don't really know what is rock - and what isn't ...
ALICE COOPER Rock n' roll is very special to me. It's my lifeblood.
JOEY RAMONE My influences were Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis and Chuck Berry.
MICKY DOLENZ After a post-Bill Berry softening with albums like 'Up' and 'Reveal,' R.E.M. seems t...
KARAN MAHAJAN If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock an...
KEITH RICHARDS If I were John Lennon
And my feelings for you grew,
I'd have left The Beatles
To spen...
LISA SWERLING I found a sound that people really liked - I found this basic concept and all I did was change the l...
BUCK OWENS If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being arou...
CAMILLE PAGLIA No matter how long you play rock n roll songs might change just as the balls are there, the rock bal...
BON SCOTT The great thing about rock n' roll is, if you want to fight - like, fight the system, fight the ...
BILLY CORGAN I'm a rock and roll singer.
ADAM ANT There's an edge to real rock 'n' roll. It's all that matters.
NEIL YOUNG Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock-n-roll.
SHIGERU MIYAMOTO Rock and roll has probably given more than it's taken.
CHARLIE WATTS When your hair is rising, that's when you know it's a good song - that's happened to me ...
JOSE GONZALEZ I tried to emulate my favourite guitar players, the old bluesmen like Blind Willie McTell and Big Bi...
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JOHN LENNON Imagine there's no heavenIt's easy if you tryNo hell below usAbove us only skyImagine all the people...
JOHN LENNON sometimes all i can feel is a sadness so deep - it hardly becomes known to me
JOHN LENNON If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, th...
JOHN LENNON As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot
JOHN LENNON If I ate it would go right to my knee.
JOHN LENNON We were a band who made it very, very big. That's all.
JOHN LENNON Canada is America without being American without that … ‘We-are-the-mighty-whatever scene.’ Ca...
JOHN LENNON There's nothing you can know that isn't known.
JOHN LENNON A working-class hero is something to be.
JOHN LENNON You are all geniuses, and you are all beautiful. You don't need anyone to tell you who you are. You ...
JOHN LENNON