Baby Quote by Sinead O'Connor

The blues had a baby and they called it rock and roll.

— Muddy Waters

Blues is a big part of rock and roll. The best rock and roll got its birth in the blues. You hear it in…

— Angus Young

The blues are real important. It's where most of the hard rock n' roll came from.

— Izzy Stradlin

I mean, rock 'n' roll is based on the blues, whether people want to know that or not.

— Dusty Hill

I just like the blues better than rock 'n' roll

— Johnny Winter

You literally cannot deny the fact that rock and roll was born because of blues, and blues is black man's music.

— Logic

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

Rock n' roll was a kid when I was a kid.

— Salman Rushdie

Everybody started callin' my music rock and roll, but it wasn't anything but the same rhythm and blues I'd been playin' down in New…

— Fats Domino

You don't have to play the blues to play rock 'n' roll, but that's where, somewhere along the line, your influences came from. I…

— Dusty Hill

Everybody started calling my music rock and roll, but it wasn't anything but the same rhythm and blues I'd been playing down in New…

— Fats Domino

Rock ’n roll is really swing with a modern name. It began on the levees and plantations, took in folk songs, and features blues…

— Alan Freed