Blues Quote by Fats Domino

Rock n Roll is music from the neck down.

— Keith Richards

Rock ’n roll is really swing with a modern name. It began on the levees and plantations, took in folk songs, and features blues…

— Alan Freed

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

I think of rock 'n' roll as a combination of country blues and swing band music, not Chicago blues, and modern pop.

— Bob Dylan

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

The way I see it, rock n' roll is folk music.

— Robert Plant

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

I think we as a band, as individuals, understand that all popular music stems from blues and jazz and even pop, but rock 'n'…

— David Johansen

I think we as a band, as individuals, understand that all popular music stems from blues and jazz and even pop, but rock 'n'…

— David Johansen

I mean, rock 'n' roll is based on the blues, whether people want to know that or not.

— Dusty Hill

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

I don't think there's any such thing as rock n' roll anymore - it's an amalgamation of business interests.

— John Lydon