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When I talk about rock n' roll, to me, that goes back to the beginning of the 1950s. Blue suede shoes and sideburns, man. Pink and black coloured clothes. Turn your collar up, comb your hair in ducktails. And the music was cool. It was a whole culture then - a different world.

— Bobby Keys

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

We had a really vast music collection and I was raised around rock'n'roll, it's just the way it was.

— Slash

It was the early days of Rock 'n' Roll in this country. We were all struggling to learn music, it might be Country, Jazz, Classical, Blues or even Rock 'n' Roll.

— Jim Sullivan

From 1958 to 1964, that's real rock n' roll. Then the Beatles hit and everyone sounded like them.

— Wolfman Jack

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.

— Elvis Costello

Rock n' roll was a kid when I was a kid.

— Salman Rushdie

I was born at the beginning of rock and roll. I got to experience the entire evolution of popular rock and roll music even before it started.

— John Oates

I think that I recall the nostalgic '50s: the start of early television and rock-and-roll, and I think everything seemed to get very generic. Not much has changed.

— Rick Moranis

I was always fascinated with rock 'n' roll, or girls, or something like that when I was a kid.

— Gary Sinise

The Beatles changed music forever. They took rock n' roll from a medium that was about cars and girls and gave it context, interesting chord changes and true musicianship.

— Bob Spitz

✗Opposing Perspectives

Rock and roll's relatively new, in the sense of the Fifties, Sixties, right? They invented the first sort of rock stars, and they took it to excess, and then the excess became bitter, tormented. Then it became okay to succeed.

— Albert Hammond, Jr.