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"… I just know that, right now, … the biggest record selling business there is is rock and roll."
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Rock and roll is a genre of popular music that evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s. The origins of rock and roll are rooted in a blending of African-American musical genres, mainly rhythm and blues, with stylistic influences from gospel, jazz, boogie-woogie, electric blues, jump blues, swing, and folk music. While rock and roll's early elements can be heard in blues
"… I just know that, right now, … the biggest record selling business there is is rock and roll."
"Rock and Roll is a means of pulling the White Man down to the level of the Negro. It is part of a plot to undermine the morals of the youth of our nation."
"When I listen to this rock and roll and look at you kids, I dont think its a whole lot different than the Charleston and the Varsity Drag."
"Hail, hail rock and roll; deliver me from the days of old. Long live rock and roll; the beat of the drums, loud and bold. Rock, rock, rock and roll; the feelin is there, body and soul."
"Why should Americans, Negro or white, forget or deny where rock and roll came from, what produced it, why it is here? Especially when the English havent forgotten and the French still remember. Cadillacs, juke boxes, heat, oppression, violence, happiness — who has that in England on such a scale as you do in America?"
"I knew the bride when she used to rock and roll."
"In truth, it has no beginning and no end, for it is the very pulse of life itself."
"Most rock journalism is people who cant write, interviewing people who cant talk, for people who cant read."
"Tonight I am going to defecate on stage because I think that is the only way to express the nature of my soul according to rock and roll."
"The profound sacred and spiritual meaning of the great music of the church must never be mixed with the transitory quality of rock and roll music. The former serves to lift mens souls to higher levels of reality and therefore to God. The latter so often plunges mens minds into degrading and immoral depths."
"Rock and roll is dead, and we dont care."
"My my, hey hey... Rock and roll is here to stay. Hey hey, my my... Rock and roll will never die."