Rock and Roll History Quotes

[joking about the length of the Rolling Stones' career] You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe - and you have the Rolling Stones!

Rock is rock, and, rock and roll, rock is just short for rock and roll.

The Sonics I found later and that was pretty important.

It's much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.

Rock and roll mainly but I can play passable jazz also.

I'm touched by rock n' roll. I'm touched by the Beatles. I want some of the music I do to reflect that.

It's Only Rock and Roll.

Pure, white rock 'n' roll, with no blues influence.

Do you recall what was revealed the day the music died?

Rock n' roll is poison put to sound.

Guitarists shouldn't get too riled up about all of the great players that were left off of 'Rolling Stone Magazines' list of the Greatest Guitar Players of all Time' ... Rolling Stone is published for people who read the magazine because they don't know what to wear.

Rock and roll has probably given more than it's taken.

Hearing a lot of early rock n' roll records from a very young age was a huge influence.

I felt like I kind of got to know [Elvis Presley], and got a little peek inside what was going on there. That was pretty amazing.

I only know two cats in this business that really had it all; Elvis was one of those guys, the other was Ricky Nelson. There was a difference in those two guys though. Elvis moved...Ricky never had to; he stood flat footed and captivated his audience with his good looks. We grew up with him; those who didn't missed something. History books are gonna have to say that he played a big role in Rock 'n' Roll music.... and he did it his way.

Every time you read something about Rolling Stones it always mentions their age and how long can they go on? I think there are certain genres of music where people are allowed to go on, but there is something about rock and roll, I guess because it originally started out to be a teenage rebellion.

Rock & roll seemed to just come to us, on the radio and in the record stores. It became our music. . . But then we uncovered another, deeper level, the history behind rock and R&B, the music behind our music. All roads led to the source, which was the blues.

I may be gone, but Rock and Roll lives on.

I plug into a lot of old rock & roll. Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis - I love all that stuff.

Nashville may be famed for its country music, but this may well be the capital of rock and roll music in the United States of America.

Jesse Stone did more to develop the basic rock-and-roll sound than anybody else.

People think the Beatles know what's going on. We don't. We're just doing it.

I love rock and roll, so put another dime in the juke box, baby.

The rock's easy, but the roll is another thing.

I was loud and electric at night, got all shook up with Elvis.