Blues Quote by Fats Domino

Everybody started calling my music rock and roll, but it wasn't anything but the same rhythm and blues I'd been playing down in New…

— Fats Domino

My music was a mixture of everything New Orleans.

— Fats Domino

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

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

I was listening to music long before rock 'n roll.

— Bill Wyman

What excited me when I first came into it was the performing aspect and doing blues-oriented material, rock/blues oriented stuff, basic stuff, basic what…

— Van Morrison

I started in New Orleans music and played all through the history of jazz.

— Steve Lacy

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

— Slash

The blues had a baby and they called it rock and roll.

— Muddy Waters

I'm old enough to know what music was like before rock & roll.

— Roger Glover

New Orleans is just so full of culture in the music content - blues, folk. I was introduced to a lot of things. My…

— Luke James

Early on, before rock 'n' roll, I listened to big band music - anything that came over the radio - and music played by…

— Bob Dylan