Chuck Berry Quotes

One thing the blues ain't, is funny.

Them pains, when blues pains grab you, you'll sing the blues right.

Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.

Some of the greatest blues music is some of the darkest music you've ever heard.

One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.

Most of life is sad.

I'm not a morose person; it's just that my best songs reflect on the sadder aspects of life.

I'm always weeping at something or other.

I'm so involved in melancholy.

The delta blues is a low-down, dirty shame blues. It's a sad, big wide sound, something to make you think about people who are dead or the women who left you.

Fans say I have a lot of sorrow in my eyes. It's true.

We all have sadness in our life and things that we can draw upon.

Does the world have nothing inside but sorrow?

I have heartaches, I have blues. No matter what you got, the blues is there. 'Cause that's all I know - the blues. And I can sing the blues so deep until you can have this room full of money and I can give you the blues.

I grew up in a house that was in a constant state of mourning.

Pathetic

When I talk about sad things, I talk about sad things.

There's definitely sadness happening in this band. I get melancholy every day about things.

There are so many reasons to be sad in the club.

I don't wanna make something depressing, I wanna make something sorrowful.

I write a lot of sad songs!

I've had an amazing life, but I think I was born with a little bit of sadness in me. I've always been attracted to those things, whether it's sad movies, sad music... when you're sad, you feel everything in a greater way than you do when you're happy.

The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.

It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

If you have ever been in a real tragic or sad situation, the words that come out are hopelessly inadequate and kind of cliched.