Guy Quote by Brian Setzer

It was the early days of Rock 'n' Roll in this country. We were all struggling to learn music, it might be Country, Jazz,…

— Jim Sullivan

When I talk about rock n' roll, to me, that goes back to the beginning of the 1950s. Blue suede shoes and sideburns, man.…

— Bobby Keys

Throughout the '50s, tons of unknown locals came through Sun to record their demos. Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, and Jerry Lee Lewis all made…

— Shawn Amos

The music we made then was so amateurish, compared to the rest of mainstream pop or rock and roll. But what differentiated us from…

— Kevin Ayers

We were the first generation of rock & roll, but life goes on.

— Ian Gillan

We had a really vast music collection and I was raised around rock'n'roll, it's just the way it was.

— Slash

We came out right in the middle of the hard-rock period... it was hard-rock everywhere! But we were ready to make our music, you…

— Karen Carpenter

We started off as a garage band who played a lot of rock 'n' roll.

— Steve Porcaro

Hearing a lot of early rock n' roll records from a very young age was a huge influence.

— Angus Young

Rock & roll seemed to just come to us, on the radio and in the record stores. It became our music. . . But…

— Martin Scorsese

Rock n' roll sounded like music from another planet. The first time around, we had people like Elvis, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee…

— Lemmy

In the beginning of rock n' roll, there was always innovation. Artists were always trying to do something new and something different.

— Phil Everly