Being Quote by Daryl Davis

Rock 'n' roll is meant to entertain. Hippie folk singers are supposed to be singing about leftist views, but I don't think rock 'n'…

— Johnny Ramone

Rock'n'roll is nothing but Boogie Woogie with stuff on top of it. And if you're black, they name it rhythm'n'blues, and if you're white,…

— Ike Turner

The people who listened to rock 'n' roll, I thought, were bound together against the people who didn't listen to rock 'n' roll. That,…

— Aleksandar Hemon

Originally, what we call rock 'n' roll was nothing more than an attempt of very bad white performers to sound like black rhythm-and-blues performers.…

— Frank Sinatra Jr

Everybody likes music. And rock 'n' roll - that was the music that brought white youth and black youth together for the first time…

— Daryl Davis

Rock 'n' Roll is just New Orleans rhythm and blues under a new name. It's got that Dixieland beat and that's what sells records.

— Fats Domino

Rock n' Roll came from the slaves singing gospel in the fields. Their lives were hell and they used music to lift out of…

— Meat Loaf

Rock 'n' roll is just entertainment, and the kids who like to identify their youthful high spirits with a solid beat are thus possibly…

— Bill Haley

Rock 'n' roll is much easier if you're white

— Kid Rock

The music of the civil rights movement came from Black artists.

— Jasmine Crockett

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

— Mitch Miller

Rock 'n roll was born in the South, man. It's like saying rock-rock.

— Gregg Allman