Country guys Quote by Steve Miller

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 just New Orleans rhythm and blues under a new name. It's got that Dixieland beat and that's what sells records.

— Fats Domino

Rock n' Roll came from the slaves singing gospel in the fields. Their lives were hell and they used music to lift out of…

— Meat Loaf

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

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 & roll seemed to just come to us, on the radio and in the record stores. It became our music. . . But…

— Martin Scorsese

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

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

I think we as a band, as individuals, understand that all popular music stems from blues and jazz and even pop, but rock 'n'…

— David Johansen

Rock n Roll is music from the neck down.

— Keith Richards

A lot of kids bought guitars and started playing rock'n'roll because of us.

— Johnny Ramone

I think we as a band, as individuals, understand that all popular music stems from blues and jazz and even pop, but rock 'n'…

— David Johansen