Chapters Quote by Jann Wenner

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

— Slash

My input for the first 16, 17 years of my life was AM radio, FM radio - pretty mainstream stuff. Rolling Stone was probably…

— Trent Reznor

Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.

— Keith Richards

In 1965, my father was just twirling the dial of the radio to find something that would make me go to sleep, and as…

— Jello Biafra

I was born at the beginning of rock and roll. I got to experience the entire evolution of popular rock and roll music even…

— John Oates

We were the first generation of rock & roll, but life goes on.

— Ian Gillan

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

— Bill Wyman

Hearing a lot of early rock n' roll records from a very young age was a huge influence.

— Angus Young

I've been meaning to write about the Rolling Stones, but I am the furthest thing from a hipster rock journalist.

— Diablo Cody

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

Rock n' roll was my art school. For many people from working-class backgrounds, rock wasn't a chosen thing, it was the only thing: the…

— Chris Rea

I love the fact that young people are into rock 'n' roll music.

— Jason Bonham