Always Quote by Phil Everly

I think a lot of people came into rock n' roll to try to change the world. I came into rock n' roll to…

— Steve Winwood

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

Any good music must be an innovation.

— Les Baxter

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

— John Lydon

The great artists of music have always innovated and boldly changed the game, but the industry itself has not.

— Jimmy Iovine

We might think that we're really intellectual and we're going to check out the library to research the meaning every time somebody puts out…

— Van Morrison

... so much of what we do now started in 1954 at Sun Records in Memphis Tennessee ... those guys were inventing that stuff…

— Brian Setzer

Unfortunately, music devolved instead of evolved. The music business got into the hands of lawyers and accountants rather than the entrepreneurial creative people, and…

— Gary Wright

The music we made then was so amateurish, compared to the rest of mainstream pop or rock and roll. But what differentiated us from…

— Kevin Ayers

Rock became an incredible commercial success, people just became bored with serious music, and it was forgotten.

— Henry Flynt

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

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