Contempt Quote by Iggy Pop

I think, actually, that rock and roll is a misconception. It should no longer be a term for music.

— Debbie Harry

Rock & roll is a type of sensuous music unfit for impressionable minds.

— Tip O'Neill

Rock and roll is a misconception. It should no longer be a term for music.

— Debbie Harry

Rock n' roll is the most disgusting form of expression, it's brutal, malefic, a pestilential aphrodisiac, the preferred music of the delinquents of the…

— Frank Sinatra

Rock 'n' Roll is a combination of good ideas dried up by fads, terrible junk, hideous failings in taste and judgment, gullibility and manipulation,…

— Greil Marcus

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

Rock n' roll is about attitude and rebellion. It's supposed to be fun and spontaneous.

— Slash

Rock n' roll was one thing, and then they chopped off the 'roll' and called it 'rock,' which became a sort of umbrella term…

— Tom Petty

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

A Romantic ideology that predates rock glorifies the self-destructive artist as someone who's too honest and delicate for this world... It's not an easy…

— Jon Pareles

When people say stuff like, "Oh, that's soft rock. I don't listen to that," I find that elitist. It's music-racist.

— Jay-Z

My personal definition of rock'n'roll is people attempting to do something that's beyond their ability to do it well. And whatever the outward contradictions,…

— David First