Beats Quote by Ray Manzarek

Black people created rock music, it's a fact. Black people created bluegrass and rock and roll way before Elvis Presley and The Beatles.

— Princess Nokia

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

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

If I were to call it black music, that would be untrue. I don't know what that is, unless it would be some African…

— Dexter Gordon

Jazz was the beginning of rhythm music, which developed into rock and roll. But what the jazz musicians lost because they were so far…

— Fela Kuti

I had written a tune called 'Shake, Rattle and Roll,' but the white stations refused to play it - they thought it was low-class…

— Jesse Stone

Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.

— Mahalia Jackson

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

Historically, black music has influenced other cultures and other genres and created other genres.

— Miguel

Everybody likes music. And rock 'n' roll - that was the music that brought white youth and black youth together for the first time…

— Daryl Davis

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

Rock 'n' roll is much easier if you're white

— Kid Rock