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If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'.
-- John Lennon

All of Chuck's children are out there playing his licks.
-- Bob Seger, Rock 'n' Roll Never Forgets

The only Maybelline I knew was the name of a cow.
-- 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?" After they laughed at me a few times they began requesting the hillbilly stuff and enjoyed dancing to it.
-- Chuck Berry quoted in: Chuck Berry: The Autobiography

Roll over, Beethoven,
And tell Tchaikovsky the news.
-- Words from Chuck Berry song, 'Roll Over, Beethoven', 1956