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I had to overcome the name Rock. If I'd been as hip then as I am now, I would have never consented to be named Rock.

I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicious.

I had written a tune called 'Shake, Rattle and Roll,' but the white stations refused to play it - they thought it was low-class black music. We thought what we needed was a new name. But a white disc jockey named Alan Freed laid on it, and he thought up the name 'rock n' roll.'

I think the world of Chuck Berry.

I wasn't a rock 'n' roll girl. I said, Neil Young, Neil Young, where do I know that name from?

I saw rock n' roll future and its name is Bruce Springsteen.

I don't like putting a name on my music. It's not just country and rap; it's got Southern rock, classic rock.

Back then, I, most rockers loved Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis... you know in the '60s.

I can't even picture being without rock 'n'roll.

Rock'n'roll has to be destroyed and rebuilt in my name if it's ever gonna accomplish anything.