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Presley is country music, white music. Jazz is black music - it was invented by the blacks in New Or... TONY BENNETT
The Best of Elvis Presley, Doris Day, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bill Hailey and the Comets, Frank Sinatra, Pe... SARA SHERIDAN I was madly in love with Elvis Presley. Dad wasn't into it at all, at least not for himself as a...
NATALIE COLE
I heard Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis, and that was it. I didn't ever want to be anything e... ELTON JOHN I think that one of Elvis' charms was that he could sing almost any kind of music. I am sure tha...
PATTI PAGE
People don't realize what they had till it's gone. Like President Kennedy, there was no one ... MUHAMMAD ALI I didn't plan on rock-n-roll. I wanted to learn jazz; I got to know some people doing rock-n-rol...
ROBBY KRIEGER
Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis had enormous talent, and Elvis was the major contributor to an entirely ne... BOB BECKEL
Oh, I think country has changed tremendously. I think country has totally changed. Country music whe... JOHN MELLENCAMP
My mom loved rock n' roll. My father hated it. We couldn't play it when he was around. He li... PATTI SMITH
When Little Richard used to stand up and play it was just fabulous, and Liberace had the candlestick... ELTON JOHN
Hip-hop kind of absorbed rock in terms of the attitude and the whole point of why rock was important... CHRIS CORNELL Every performer who ever performed in rock and roll or even close to it is lying if they tell you th...
MAC DAVIS I was very keen on people like Elvis, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Gene Vincent.
ROBIN TROWER Any music can be learned from and adapted from other artists, and whites have been widely influenced...
BILL FERRIS
I like jazz, rock n' roll, some hip hop - I can't think of any music I don't like. B. B. KING
If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk. OSCAR WILDE
Reggae music don't really focus on one thing, you know. If reggae music is speaking about the st... BURNING SPEAR Growing up, I never listened to English music. I was more into Motown, as well as early rock n' ...
ALEX WINSTON Music is the greatest communication in the world. Even if people don't understand the language t...
LOU RAWLS
I was listening to music long before rock 'n roll. BILL WYMAN
It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard 'Heartbreak Hotel' I thoug... PAUL MCCARTNEY The Beatles changed music forever. They took rock n' roll from a medium that was about cars and ...
BOB SPITZ A lot of people have accused Elvis of stealing the black man's music, when in fact, almost every bla...
JACKIE WILSON
The first record I ever listened to was Elvis Presley, and I remember thinking, 'Man this guy is... JESSE MCCARTNEY
My own musical ambitions were born when I was five, watching the Ed Sullivan Show on TV. When Elvis ... SUZI QUATRO When the fearsome foursome of rock music, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Little Richard, and Jerry Lee Lew...
D. A. PENNEBAKER
Most comics worship music on some level. It's more rock-n-roll to get up there for an hour and m... GREG BEHRENDT I don't know that my voice ever makes sense anywhere, necessarily. I would sing bluegrass music,...
CHRIS STAPLETON
If anyone asks you what kind of music you play, tell him 'pop.' Don't tell him 'rock... BUDDY HOLLY
People called rock & roll 'African music.' They called it 'voodoo music.' They s... LITTLE RICHARD If it wasn't for Kenny Rogers, I don't think I would be in country music. He was that guy wh...
DARIUS RUCKER We're not here to make the ignorant people happy. We're here to write our music for those pe...
ANDY BIERSACK I don't care what people say. My music's, my music.
ENRIQUE IGLESIAS
I wanted to emulate music from America - young punks playing rock n' roll is what it was. I read... JIMMY PAGE People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English m...
HARRISON BIRTWISTLE I'm influenced by Django Reinhardt, Stephane Grappelly, Roland Kirk, John Coltrane, B.B. King, a...
DICKEY BETTS White artists have made millions of dollars off music they stole from black artists. I don't bla...
ATO ESSANDOH To me, John Lennon and Elvis Presley were punks, because they made music that evoked those emotions ...
JOEY RAMONE Mainly, I don't like it when music is made solely to impress people or in order to please busine...
JOHN FRUSCIANTE
Oh, stuff the critics. I don't care. Too many people are snooty about classical. Look, I wasn... KATHERINE JENKINS
Michael's the ultimate entertainer. After Michael Jackson, it's Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra... TRACY MORGAN
Where I came from, just nodding and smiling when someone expressed views was the ultimate insult. If... EZEKIEL EMANUEL
The first rock stars were incredibly theatrical. Little Richard and Chuck Berry and Elvis Presley - ... JOHN CAMERON MITCHELL You don't see a lot of black rock stars. The music industry tends to be segregated stylistically...
LANCE REDDICK
I love rock-n-roll. I think it's an exciting art form. It's revolutionary. Still revolutiona... NICK CAVE I would have quit before I went rock-n-roll. I know one way, and that's natural, and when I can&...
RALPH STANLEY America is tough for rock music. Rock n' roll used to be the main music for the youth, and it...
TAYLOR HAWKINS
At the end of the day, people have the right to have opinions. I have the right to have an opinion. ... TYGA My favorite Elvis era has always been his early Sun Records stuff. It was raw, just Elvis singing wh...
DRAKE MILLIGAN There's rock n' roll in hip-hop, there's rock n' roll in pop music, there's rock...
JOHN VARVATOS
I don't care what people say about my relationship; I don't care what they say about my boob... KATY PERRY
It's hard to get people at a record company to talk about music. They don't seem to want to ... HENRY ROLLINS I don't want to get myself in trouble - and I don't think I'm super important or anythin...
JUSTIN VERNON I don't remember ever not singing. My mother loved music, and she taught me songs, country music...
FLORENCE HENDERSON All music is dance music. But when people think of dance music, they think of techno or just house. ...
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA
My ideology was, if I just make very happy music, very happy music, then people will forget about wh... MAC MILLER I think we're returning to more of the original vibration of music and creativity through the re...
JANE SIBERRY I had written a tune called 'Shake, Rattle and Roll,' but the white stations refused to play...
JESSE STONE
When you sit down and think about what rock 'n' roll music really is, then you have to chang... LITTLE RICHARD I preferred MTV as it used to be when it was about the music - I don't like it that now they jus...
GEORGIA MAY JAGGER
When people say, 'Why don't you face the music?' I say, 'You have to understand the ... EDWARD SNOWDEN
Napster was a black market for music. Ninety-nine per cent of the music that people were downloading... CHAD HURLEY
I can't help other people's frustrations. I don't owe people anything. If people would l... DAVID GILMOUR
Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's w... ELVIS PRESLEY I know a lot of people who enjoy rap music who aren't black. You can't just say it's bla...
F. GARY GRAY
I grew up on popular music, and rock-and-roll expresses very deep feelings of those people who don&#... BOBBIE ANN MASON
I don't think I could ever give up music. It's what makes me tick. If there was no music, th... MAGGIE STIEFVATER
They'll see it. And it doesn't matter if they don't. It's only Rock 'n' Roll... MARILYN MANSON The Beatles changed music forever. They took rock 'n' roll from a medium that was about cars and gir...
BOB SPITZ I still don't understand the music industry that much. Everything I learned was from hanging out...
BRENDAN FRASER
When takers talk about mistakes, they're usually quick to place the blame on other people. Giver... ADAM GRANT I don't know if it's possible to live the rock 'n roll lifestyle and still be romantic.
ADAM LEVINE
I'm not in it for the money. I like music. I love to write music. I can't imagine myself not... PAUL SIMON
All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all j... OZZY OSBOURNE All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all j...
NEIL YOUNG It's not like I'm the first man ever to do this, y'know? You gotta go back to Nat King C...
ICE CUBE It's not that people don't like classical music. It's that they don't have the chanc...
GUSTAVO DUDAMEL What I do isn't black music; it's just my music.
DARYL HALL I think because people can't understand our style, they think it's a joke. Our music isn'...
WATKIN TUDOR JONES I love singing some Johnny Cash, which is interesting because it's in a guy's key; I love si...
SAMANTHA BARKS
I don't believe people playing rock n' roll should have crowns. We're not kings and quee... PATTI SMITH Music and fashion have had a kind of incestuous relationship since the Fifties. It started with peop...
JOHN VARVATOS
Elvis Presley, you can't define him in a couple of sentences, but he was a country boy and he wa... JERRY LEIBER White people couldn't do black music back in the day because they weren't funky or bad enoug...
NARADA MICHAEL WALDEN When I talk about rock n' roll, to me, that goes back to the beginning of the 1950s. Blue suede ...
BOBBY KEYS Rock n' Roll came from the slaves singing gospel in the fields. Their lives were hell and they used ...
MEAT LOAF
When I was studying... there weren't any black concert pianists. My choices were intuitive, and ... NINA SIMONE
I was listening to music long before rock 'n roll. BILL WYMAN
I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rappin... NINA SIMONE 'Dance to the Music' was just Sly Stone being his natural crazy self right from the beginnin...
JON LANDAU I was drawn to love songs, but I was just drawn to great music - no matter if it's hip-hop, pop,...
NAYVADIUS CASH A name doesn't make the music. It's just called that to differentiate it from other types of...
ART BLAKEY I used to love watching 'Hee Haw' on TV when I was a kid. My brothers and sisters weren'...
DARIUS RUCKER The biggest compliments I've heard about 'That Metal Show' are the ones from people that...
EDDIE TRUNK Three-6 Mafia, we were always doing different kinds of things, and we like rock music, we like whate...
JUICY J
Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a littl... WARREN ZEVON I don't think people will ever forget I was an 'Angel', anymore than they'll forget ...
CHERYL LADD A lot of the people I'd love to work with, like John Lennon, Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, aren...
DRAKE BELL There was a misconception about me when I started off because I had my hair greased up and I have so...
CHRIS ISAAK
