Experience Quote by Robert Hilburn

Elvis Presley was rock 'n' roll, I thought that was pretty mediocre. But since that time, the succeeding steps in music has been down,…

— Frank Sinatra Jr

Elvis was the king. No doubt about it. People like myself, Mick Jagger and all the others only followed in his footsteps.

— Rod Stewart

I think anything that you put your life's energy into becomes part of your identity. It would be difficult for the Rolling Stones to…

— Jim Bridwell

All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together.

— Nancy Gibbs

Rolling Stones came later for me. I was a Beatles guy. All of us were pretty much more along the lines of Beatles guys…

— Synyster Gates

No matter what though, there's always rock & roll. There's rock 'n' roll in hip-hop, there's rock & roll in pop music, there's rock…

— John Varvatos

The protest years were over, not just for me but for a whole generation, and in music, just like in politics, many of the…

— Nina Simone

I think between The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and innumerable acts after that... rock music became a huge economic force.

— Mike Love

If you look at the history of popular music, the most successful musicians have started out being really marginal and esoteric. The Beatles and…

— Moby

There's rock n' roll in hip-hop, there's rock n' roll in pop music, there's rock n' roll in soul, there's rock n' roll in…

— John Varvatos

The 1970s was probably the most exciting decade to be a teenager, from discovering Little Richard at the end of the 1960s to glam…

— Boy George

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