Chuck Berry Quotes

I think, actually, that rock and roll is a misconception. It should no longer be a term for music.

Blues is a big part of rock and roll. The best rock and roll got its birth in the blues. You hear it in Little Richard and Chuck Berry.

Biggest lesson I've ever had in life is that blues had a baby and they named it rock 'n' roll.

That's what Tina Turner did, too - sang blues up-tempo - and they called it rock 'n' roll.

As I said to Ringo, I was in a successful Rock N Roll band. He was in a band that changed the world. That's the difference.

These days, rock 'n' roll is much more about rock than about roll. I don't do rock. But I'm interested in that roll part, because that's the funny little bit that makes it hip.

Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.

If you ask me, rockabilly has had a raw deal for far too long. People never shunned the blues or jazz the way they do rockabilly. But it's the original punk-rock, and it changed the way people looked at music for ever.

When you sit down and think about what rock 'n' roll music really is, then you have to change that question. Played up-tempo, you call it rock 'n' roll; at a regular tempo, you call it rhythm and blues.

I was born at the beginning of rock and roll. I got to experience the entire evolution of popular rock and roll music even before it started.

I think we as a band, as individuals, understand that all popular music stems from blues and jazz and even pop, but rock 'n' roll especially comes from blues.

Darlin... be-bop is the music of the future.

To me, the sax is rock n' roll, even though electric guitars kind of pushed it aside for a while.

What we admit to is being a rock n' roll band. From day one, I was a big Chuck Berry fan.

I like pop music. I consider rock 'n' roll to be a branch of pop music.

I got into the soul music, but I wanted to rock. I was a rocker.

When Chuck Berry came along, what he did was more rock & roll than it was blues. It was more exciting. He was like the next step. I thought his first single, 'Maybellene,' was the greatest song in the world.

Our first two records are a lot quieter and more studio-based. We kind of had this feeling like we wanted to make a more quote-unquote 'rock' record. Then Patrick joined and really brought a new Herculean power to the band.

I never liked jazz or anything else. Early rock n' roll - that was music to me. Everything else was boring.

If you actually go back and listen to my first album, there are some things on there that are kind of rock 'n' roll.

I think of rock 'n' roll as a combination of country blues and swing band music, not Chicago blues, and modern pop.

I think we as a band, as individuals, understand that all popular music stems from blues and jazz and even pop, but rock 'n' roll especially comes from blues. What we're trying to do is play rock 'n' roll, but other people call it different things.

It's rooted in things that maybe older people or people my age remember as being rock music. But at the same time, I don't think we're stuck in the past or retro. I think we've tried to push ourselves and experiment with what we can call Wilco music.

Hip-hop is rock & roll. What the hell is Wu-Tang but Motorhead?

Hot funk, cold punk, even if it's old junk, it's still rock and roll to me.