Rock n' Roll came from the slaves singing gospel in the fields. Their lives were hell and they used music to lift out of it, to take them away. That's what rock n' roll should do - take you to a better place.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think a lot of people came into rock n' roll to try to change the world. I came into rock n' roll to make music.
Maybe rock 'n' roll isn't music. Maybe people just need to be reminded that the world ain't the way they think it is.
We had a really vast music collection and I was raised around rock'n'roll, it's just the way it was.
I can't even picture being without rock 'n'roll.
Rock 'n' roll is like a circus today.
These days, rock 'n' roll is much more about rock than about roll. I don't do rock. But I'm interested in that roll part, because that's the funny little bit that makes it hip.
The spirit of rock 'n' roll is alive and well. It kind of just needs to be cultivated a little bit.
America is tough for rock music. Rock n' roll used to be the main music for the youth, and it's not so much anymore. It's hip-hop and stuff.
Obviously the people that I admired, like the Beatles, were really into rock'n'roll, but it was already a little past rock'n'roll when I started listening and making my own choices about music.
I don't think there's any such thing as rock n' roll anymore - it's an amalgamation of business interests.