Always Quote by Don Everly

Rock 'n' roll started to make so much money and generated so much income for the record companies that suddenly it was no longer…

— John Landis

I was roundly criticized for being in and around rock & roll music at its inception. It was the devil's music: it would make…

— Dick Clark

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

The early parodies that talk-show people did of rock n' roll in the '50s were terrible. They didn't know it, they didn't like it…

— Christopher Guest

Back in my day, we called it rock 'n' roll, but then we always reminded listeners that it was no big deal if they…

— Robert Plant

I loved the music, but the excesses of rock n' roll never really appealed to me at all. I couldn't see the point of…

— Robert Palmer

Obviously the people that I admired, like the Beatles, were really into rock'n'roll, but it was already a little past rock'n'roll when I started…

— Elvis Costello

My father hated rock and roll - hated it. My first real argument with my father was over the Rolling Stones. And he never,…

— Patti Smith

They wanted to start recording rock 'n roll, and thought I had the right voice.

— Freddy Fender

I thought everybody got into rock 'n' roll because they didn't want to follow instructions.

— Mos Def

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

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