To Me, True Rock 'n'

I Think They Saw Me As Something Like A Deliverer, A Way Out. My Means Of Expression, My Music, Was A Way In Which A Lot Of People Wished They Could Express Themselves And Couldn't.

Black People Lived Right By The Railroad Tracks And The Train Would Shake Their Houses At Night. I Would Hear It As A Boy And I Thought: I'm Gonna Make A Song That Sounds Like That.

People Called Rock & Roll 'african Music.' They Called It 'voodoo Music.' They Said That It Would Drive The Kids Insane. They Said That It Was Just A Flash In The Pan - The Same Thing That They Always Used To Say About Hip-hop.

I Saw Uncle John With Long Tall Sally, He Saw Aunt Mary Coming And He Ducked Back In The Alley.

My True Belief About Rock 'n' Roll--and There Have Been A Lot Of Phrases Attributed To Me Over The Years--is This: I Believe This Kind Of Music Is Demonic. ... A Lot Of The Beats In Music Today Are Taken From Voodoo, From The Voodoo Drums. If You Study Music In Rhythms, Like I Have, You'll See That Is True. I Believe That Kind Of Music Is Driving People From Christ. It Is Contagious