"Rock and roll is alive and well, my friends. Let's do it."
"His funeral was well watched and attended, a bona fide rock and roll event where friends and fans alike paid tribute to a fallen icon."
"It is so fun. I laughed the entire time just out of sheer glee and delight."
"By 1972's 'Exile on Main Street,' the Stones were left seemingly unchallenged as the world's greatest rock and roll band."
"Bob Dylan's electric performance at Newport signaled the decline of folk and the rise of rock and roll."
"Rock and roll is constantly drifting... Let's reclaim this feeling that we need to express."
"Rock and roll is an attitude, it's about having fun and staying free."
"Elvis Presley ain't got no soul, Chuck Berry is rock and roll."
"Stop for a minute and think about how great the rock and roll era was."
"Led Zeppelin coming together was destiny and it's exactly what rock and roll needed."
"They are arguably the greatest rock and roll band the world has ever seen."
"Eddie Cochran was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987, and his musical legacy endures to this day."
"Bad Company's First Album Stands as one of the greatest rock n roll debuts ever."
"Miles Davis was like a rock and roll star but in jazz."
"It's ageless. Rock and roll is a fountain of youth, and it should be that way."
"Rock and roll is about belief. You just believe. What are you doing here in this world?"
"Half a century later, I really think people are starting to realize the genius of the 60s rock and roll hall of fame group."
"It's moments like this one that truly give us hope that rock and roll is going to live forever."
"Elvis may have had his ups and downs throughout his life and career, but there's no question that he recorded some of the most beloved, memorable, and important songs in the history of rock and roll."
"If you believe in rock and roll and that it can save your mortal soul."
"Paul McCartney is sort of the most important bass player in rock and roll."
"It's one of the great rock and roll stories of all time."
"Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny is everything that rock and roll should always be."
"It's important if we want to keep rock and roll, metal, and punk alive."
"Little Richard was one of the founders of rock and roll and I could even argue that he was the innovator of rock and roll because the way he performed and the music he made definitely set a foundation for what rock and roll would become."
"His joyful shouts in songs like Tutti Frutti and Good Golly Miss Molly pointed the way for generations of rock singers to come." - On Little Richard
"Chuck Berry was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist who pioneered rock and roll."
"The van Halen story is truly one of the most compelling and entertaining in the annals of rock and roll."
"The greatest rock and roll band of all time."
"He's one of the greatest rock and roll legends of all time."
"They can look at it from that standpoint, but it's like, at the same time, all the great blues artists, especially back in the 60s, the budding rock and roll stars..."
"The whole thing was full on rock and roll from the beginning."
"No one can stop rock and roll from existence."
"It's one of the most famous guitars in rock and roll history. It'll be an icon a hundred years from now."
"Bat Out of Hell was a sonic ode to teenage lust that turned Texas-size singer Meat Loaf into the unlikeliest of rock stars."
"While Memphis has historically been known for the blues, it’s also arguably where rock and roll began."
"Rock and roll is tough, and the personalities within often tougher."
"They're excited to be part of something that is raw and sort of rock and roll."
"Buddy Holly introduced rock and roll to many during his prolific yet tragically short-lived career."
"This studio we sitting in right now there used to be a studio we couldn't get in. It was a rock and roll Studio."
"They were just four poor lads from Birmingham who changed the face of rock and roll."
"I saw The Stones on that tour at the Los Angeles Forum. [...] The Stones got onstage at four, and they then proceeded to put on what was the greatest rock and roll show I had ever seen at that point in my life."
"This would be like one of the coolest rock and roll things to ever come to my store."
"Mick Jagger, an individual whose name is inextricably linked with the defiant essence of rock and roll..."
"He was already living The Rock and Roll Lifestyle so naturally the next stage of his path to stardom would be getting expelled from school at 15 and joining his first band."
"Motorhead were a straight up old school we don't give a [ __ ] rock and roll band."
"Tom Petty was probably the last great American rock and roll band."
"Demonstrates everything that I love about rock and roll and Honky Tonk and Country guitar playing."
"Rock and roll started in the 1950s, the first Chevrolet Corvette was released in the 1950s, they're both as American as apple pie."
"Let's get to the real gritty story of rock and roll now, goddamn it."
"It's all the fun of the fair, it's rock and roll, it's disco."
"Rock and roll is about doing it well regardless of what you have."
"Rock and roll is supposed to bring you crazed joy and rebellion for no apparent reason for its own sake, right?"
"ACDC rocks, but it's hard, it's got edge, it's rock and roll, it's great rock and roll."
"The thing about rock and roll is that it wouldn't be rock and roll if it weren't crazy."
"What's rock and roll without a little drama a little mix it up come on you give peace a chance."
"Remember, it's rock and roll that makes the world do that twirly thing."
"That's where bands began to emerge. Someone said, 'I can play guitar,' a few people get together, and the next thing you know, rock and roll for Jesus was the new evangelism, the new voice of the hippie movement of those who are Christians."
"Rock and roll. It's rock and roll. It ain't noise pollution."
"Rock and roll's eldest statesmen really don't need any introduction."
"That's the sound of rock and roll, the need to be heard in the nosebleed seats, the need to push that just tiny bit further for the solo."
"You start out playing rock and roll so you can have sex and do drugs but you end up doing drugs so you can still play rock and roll and have sex."
"Remember, it's rock and roll, it's me versus the world."
"You're in so much uncharted territory, and it feels like rock and roll in itself is in so much uncharted territory."
"It was fun, it was fast, it was rock and roll."
"Jimmy Page, you know, he's one of the architects of the whole idea of rock and roll guitar playing."
"It had everything that rock and roll has to offer, you know, and you know what? Rock and roll has a lot to offer."
"The original spirit of rock and roll the punk bands love the Ventures for the simplicity, the uh do-it-yourself mentality, oh yeah."
"The Ventures are the most popular instrumental rock and roll band of all time, it is my honor to induct the Ventures into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame."
"The first rock and roll song was fiercely debated."
"Rock and roll is just pure emotion, real authentic human emotion."
"Rock and roll broke down the racial barrier."
"And I remember, well, I'm telling the story because I do remember in that moment, my first thought wasn't 'What have I done? I'm never doing this again.' My first thought was, 'I'm never gonna hang up on a rock and roll again.'"
"Rock and roll has always been called The Devil's music."
"She embraced rock and roll, she embraced the counterculture, she joined the underground at a time when the underground was the coolest thing."
"I still got the rock and roll in me."
"I've always believed that rock and roll comes down to myth. There are no facts."
"There's a pageantry that should be involved with rock and roll."
"...every rock and roller in America, every single one, knew the words and the music to 'Rock Around the Clock' because that was an emblematic song for the rock and roll era."
"I consider them with the Beatles, the Stones, and Led Zeppelin. This is one of the four kind of pillars of rock and roll."
"Honestly, it's so great to hear like an honest-to-god rock-and-roll band."
"It's only rock and roll but we like it."
"Are these guys the most underrated hard rock band in the history of rock and roll? Gotta be, right?"
"It's almost impossible, I mean, quite frankly, are these guys the most underrated hard rock band in the history of rock and roll? Gotta be right."
"My next guest does not want me to call him a rock and roll legend or a superstar. Just call him simply a singer."
"...it's there that's rock and roll but the thing is rock and roll's important because of its cultural dynamic..."
"Bon Scott was probably the best rock and roll poet of all time."
"It's honest hard-working rock and roll music from a bunch of honest hard-working working class rock and rollers."
"Remember, it is rock and roll that makes the world do that twirly thing, baby."
"The craziest rock and roll story is about you when they sued you over 'Run Through the Jungle' and 'Old Man Down the Road.' That story just blows my mind."
"Love the themes of sexuality and rock and roll commentary."
"It's rock and roll done very artistically which is pretty cool."
"This is arguably the most epic moment, forget about closer but moment in rock and roll history."
"Rock and roll is built on happy accidents."
"Rock and roll deserves to die. Trend at, well... I mean, yeah, I mean, that's a solid concept, you know what I mean? It's just loud guitars making wigs fly off. That's what, what's not to love about that, yeah?"
"We're bringing rock and roll back, baby!"
"The late 80s and early 90s in Los Angeles were the most loud, decadent, culture-shocking period essentially in rock and roll over the last two decades."
"The defining sound of what it means to be rock and roll."
"There's little doubt Jimi Hendrix is recognized today as the greatest guitarist in rock and roll history."
"No matter how old you get, you never need to grow up and you are never too old to rock and roll."
"...it got back to the essence of what rock and roll is: big volume, raw emotion, a bunch of guys can't really play your instruments very well but they have the passion that is rock and roll."
"This is rock and roll. It's like you are a fair game on anything."
"Nobody in the room had any idea that that kid would one day change the face of rock and roll."
"Many believe that this is the starting point of rock and roll."
"The world wouldn't be the same today without rock and roll."
"'Rocket 88' is often considered the first rock and roll song."
"Two of the greatest rock and roll bands of all time came out of this little town that's in the middle of nowhere."
"Sam Oldman: he's the rock and roll star of artificial intelligence."
"To me, a Telecaster Deluxe or Custom is the greatest guitar ever made... because it's got everything I love, it's got humbuckers but it's a Telecaster, a rock and roll machine."
"When you see Keith Richards holding a Custom or Deluxe, it just screams rock and roll."
"Rock and roll was great. I didn't think about it then; I just knew it turned me on."
"Rock and roll sensibility finally reached Nashville in the mid-70s."
"I love the spirit of rock and roll. Now we're like, 'What can I do that's different, you know?' Yeah, which goes back to the spirit of rock and roll."
"I mean, how could you sit still? That was the importance of rock and roll. It was music designed to be danced to, to be moved to."
"They were the Prometheus of rock and roll. They stole the fire of the rock and roll gods and brought it to us."
"It's theater, isn't it? It was a theater thing, you know? He always classed it as theater. We were theater. Not just straightforward rock and roll. It was all theater."
"This life that rock and roll has afforded us is one of Wanderlust."
"It's the backbone of so much rock and roll."
"After 30 years of playing and 23 years of ongoing commercial success, Tom Petty still represents all that is good, gritty, and grand about rock and roll."
"For sheer rock and roll, I'd say 'Ain't Talking 'Bout Love.'"
"I've socialized with him a lot, he is the nicest guy in rock and roll."
"Undeniably iconic and extremely important to what we consider rock and roll today."
"Don't make the mistake of categorizing me as an urban artist because I'm making music and it's rock and roll and it's soul and it's funk and it's you know everything."
"No fancy bells and whistles, just lean loud hungry kick-ass rock and roll. For a lot of people, this is the definitive KISS album."
"It's not what people think it is, especially in rock and roll. But I honestly feel like all of us hardcore dudes, everybody's eating salads and greens, and we're stretching. John's like chanting Hari Krishna."
"I feel like this performance is the epitome of rock and roll with this energy and this sort of music and everything."
"God killed rock and roll, no fist through the glass, no backstage pass."
"Jerry Lee Lewis burst onto the music scene in the 1950s, hailing from the Deep South with his electrifying piano skills and passionate vocal delivery, solidifying his role as a pioneer of the emerging rock and roll genre."
"There's so much in this rock and roll, put on dry land, scary."
"Efficiency is the new rock and roll."
"Bill Haley & his comets live in 1958, laying the foundation for that future sound and the future sound of the industry into the 60s."
"It's a rock and roll show which I think is like the really cool thing about all of this."
"We put the piss in rock and roll."
"The mythos around rock and roll being all about alcohol, sex, and drugs is nothing more than a social engineering narrative."
"...what the controllers did was to tie this alcohol, sex, and drugs mythology around rock and roll, and it was social engineering in order to acclimate the masses."
"Huey is actually one of only seven artists in the rock and roll era to have at least two albums that each had four top 10 hits."
"It's funny to watch rock and roll grow up."
"Like so many other masters that we've covered, he battled addiction and controversy and it led to another shocking and untimely rock and roll death."
"Rock and roll, to me, like when you guys were at the peak of these times, man, rock and roll stars were like gods almost, you know, it was just something you couldn't just become a rock and roll star back then."
"The first superstar of rock and roll had arrived"
"I saw Elvis on TV and that was it, give me a guitar, it's rock and roll."
"I'm a guy dreaming to go around the world, you know? So I travel, I met people, cultured, and then I fell down to the rock-and-roll life right, which is not bad."
"People do things around rock and roll they will never do in normal life."
"Rock and roll would have been a more useful tool."
"Which singer first sang A Jailhouse Rock? That was Elvis Presley."
"Electric guitar is the quintessential rock and roll instrument."
"Rhythm and blues is considered one of the main predecessors of rock and roll."
"Sun Records played a crucial role in popularizing Rock and Roll by signing and promoting artists like Elvis and Jerry Lee."
"Rock and roll emerged in the late 1950s and early 60s featuring clean-cut harmonizing vocal groups."
"The Beatles were the first and only rock and roll group that I ever really loved."
"We do have to recognize the impact [rock and roll] had on our lives."
"That's one of the greatest albums in the history of rock and roll."
"Rock and roll is my music. I fell in love with rock and roll when it first... when I first heard it, it being Elvis, right at the beginning."
"Local boy makes good. Elvis the Pelvis Presley, king of rock and roll, returns to Tupelo, Mississippi."
"The birthplace of rock and roll, Cleveland, Ohio."
"...a massive thank you in advance to anyone who joins this campaign to get British rock and roll back where it belongs."
"I'm only here because of Jumping Jack Flash; you're a [__] dinosaur."
"It was their biggest selling album of all time and is considered around the world as one of the all-time British rock and roll classics."
"It's great rock and roll without the reverb, it's much better."
"Rock and Roll is dead we've been saying that for 45 years, and it's never died yet."
"Their debut album 'Shake Your Money Maker' selling 5 million copies and sort of saving rock and roll at the time."
"By early 1967, Jimi Hendrix and the Experience had set the Rock and Roll Circus in motion."
"Early rock and roll was all Elvis."
"Elvis, he's called rock and roll."
"I think Floyd really is one of the great bands of rock and roll because they were there then, you know, in the early days with Sid."
"I love them because of what they did for rock and roll."
"I've had many magic, magic rock and roll moments seeing a band live."
"It changed for me what rock and roll was, what it could be, what going to shows could be."
"Any good rock and roll song should be able to be played on acoustic guitar and still be a good song."
"Buddy's inventive lyrics and captivating stage presence made him a rock and roll hero."
"It's the kind of music you could dance to at times, which is actually what rock and roll was invented to provide for."
"Buddy Holly was a rock and roll sensation who left an indelible mark on music history."
"Rumors is the great soap opera of rock and roll."
"Many of these instruments were used to create some of the classic eras of rock and roll and they've just got a cool vibe to them."
"This will not be wishful thinking, but objective fiction based on the events and internal dynamics of the rock and roll enterprise."
"You can't take rock and roll too seriously."
"Everybody in the band could play and deliver a sonic explosion like the new messengers of rock and roll."
"Having weathered a career marked by extraordinary changes in direction, Little Richard survived not only as a self-proclaimed architect of rock and roll but also as a living treasure of 20th-century American pop culture."
"Rock and roll is about freedom and expressing your love of life."
"I just saw the future of rock and roll."
"Rock and roll to me is about freedom of thought and freedom of expression."
"We were always a rock and roll band, we just had blues and R&B roots."
"We love the theatric part of rock and roll."
"Every song on this album is a rock and roll, a punk rock and roll treasure."
"If you are passionate about the greatest music of the rock and roll era, this is your place."
"Rock and roll was the first music that made me go funny and gave me goosebumps."
"It's only rock and roll, and we like it."
"Thank you, Band-Maid, for keeping the spirit of rock and roll alive."
"First of all, ensure your safety, and then you can infuse your life with a bit of rock and roll."
"Before rock and roll, there was Sister Rosetta Tharpe."
"Rock and roll was invented by black people, dude."
"Rock and roll was invented by four ordinary working-class lads from Liverpool."
"I was tired of the [expletive]. I just wanted to get in the van and go play rock and roll."
"The father of rock and roll guitar, right?"
"It's pure rock and roll in this form, and I actually really love it."
"I love mini scarves... it adds something a bit rock and roll, Gypsy, boho, and I love it."
"I've always said ever since I was a snotty 19-year-old kid with my first record contract, rock and roll is art."
"It's just a testament to how powerful rock and roll is."
"Rock and roll is a timeless classic; people love it."
"The greatest rock and roll guitar player in my opinion was Sister Rosetta Tharpe."