132 Quotes by Chuck Berry

I love poetry. I love rhyming. Do you know, there are poets who don't rhyme? Shakespeare did not rhyme most of the time, and that's why I do not like him.

Listening to Nat Cole prompted me to sing sentimental songs with distinct diction.

I should have been a son of Einstein.

It's not me to toot my horn. The minute you toot your horn, it seems like society will try and disconnect your battery. And if you do not toot your horn, they'll try their darnedest to give you a horn to toot, or say that you should have a horn.

The world has done nothing to me that I haven't done with the world.

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

My first job at Gleason's Bar in Cleveland was $800 a week, when I was making $92 a week with overtime at the automobile plant.

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.

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