Rock and Roll Revolution Quotes

Rock n' roll sounded like music from another planet. The first time around, we had people like Elvis, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis - all them people.

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

When the Doors became huge, what nascent rock intelligentsia existed at the time adored them.

British rock & roll became the gospel for American kids like me.

The Beatles were so big that it's hard for people not alive at the time to realize just how big they were.

Many of us would probably not be in the music business - or never would have been in the music business - had The Beatles not demonstrated that this kind of music, or this kind of performance, was actually viable as a career alternative.

I was born at the beginning of rock and roll. I got to experience the entire evolution of popular rock and roll music even before it started.

If heavy metal bands ruled the world, we'd be a lot better off.

Every 15, 20, 25 years, a new rock and roll record needs to come out and a new rock and roll band needs to come out.

Elvis Presley was the big bang. He was the most influential single figure in the history of American pop culture. He changed the way we looked, thought, dressed, held a guitar. He didn't invent rock & roll, but he defined it in a way that everyone who followed him owes him a debt.

Rock and roll is not just music, it is a way of life, it has its own spirit.

Rock and roll came into my life when I was about 12, 13, when Little Richard and Chuck Berry had just started hitting the shores of England.