Back in Chicago, all we cared about was rock 'n' roll and staying out of the army.
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You know, there have been a lot of casualties in rock-n-roll.
We had a really vast music collection and I was raised around rock'n'roll, it's just the way it was.
Rock and roll is here to stay.
I don't think we listened to any rock n' roll at all in the early days. It was Miles Davis and John Coltrane 95% of the time.
I was listening to music long before rock 'n roll.
Rock & roll has kept us alive for all these years. But we just love country music. It's in our blood.
Where is this great love for rock and roll that existed for 50 or 60 years?
Rock n' roll really belongs to all America. It really doesn't belong to one city.
I look back on my life, comin' out of Macon, Georgia - I never thought I'd be a superstar, a living legend. I never heard of no rock and roll in my life.
There was not a lot of rock n' roll in the house. Our parents didn't think it was very groovy, and I tend to agree with them. If you grew up with Charlie Parker, Bill Haley wasn't very hip.