Avoiding Quote by Bill Haley

The reason kids like rock 'n roll is their parents don't

— Mitch Miller

Rock 'n' Roll is a combination of good ideas dried up by fads, terrible junk, hideous failings in taste and judgment, gullibility and manipulation,…

— Greil Marcus

Rock 'n' roll can be fun and dangerous at the same time.

— Billie Joe Armstrong

Rock ’n roll is really swing with a modern name. It began on the levees and plantations, took in folk songs, and features blues…

— Alan Freed

Have you seen 'American Idol' lately? I'm sure that some kids somewhere at this moment are thrashing themselves silly over what they call 'Rock…

— Eric Burdon

Rock & roll is a type of sensuous music unfit for impressionable minds.

— Tip O'Neill

I love the fact that young people are into rock 'n' roll music.

— Jason Bonham

What really is wild about rock 'n' roll? Nothing. It's so banal and so part of corporate culture. It threatens to lose all its…

— Ezra Furman

Today it feels as if rock'n'roll has sort of turned in on its self, kids are 'rockin' to the same groups their parents do/did.…

— Andrew Loog Oldham

Rock 'n' roll is a young form. People over twenty-five ruin it. This whole censorship thing has come about because old people are playing…

— John Hughes

“Rock'n'roll is a teenage sport, meant to be played by teenagers of all ages--they could be 15, 25 or 35. It all boils down…

— Michael Azerrad

Maybe rock 'n' roll isn't music. Maybe people just need to be reminded that the world ain't the way they think it is.

— Julian Cope