America Quote by David Bowie

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

Venues had segregated seating - but when Chuck Berry fused together blues, boogie-woogie and country music, it caused people not to be able to…

— Daryl Davis

Rock 'n' roll was uniting black kids and white kids, and rock 'n' roll is not being given credit... for being just as important…

— Daryl Davis

What we admit to is being a rock n' roll band. From day one, I was a big Chuck Berry fan.

— Angus Young

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

White people couldn't do black music back in the day because they weren't funky or bad enough. They weren't from the ghettoes, but hip-hop…

— Narada Michael Walden

I grew up in a largely black community during the '70s and '80s that scoffed at 'white' music. That music - folk, rock, some…

— Hilton Als

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

I think there are certain genres of music where people are allowed to go on, but there is something about rock and roll, I…

— Kate Pierson

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

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

— John Lennon

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