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

I am the innovator. I am the originator. I am the emancipator. I am the architect of rock 'n' roll!

I tried to look presentable for a show, but not for sexual attraction. It was strictly for show business.

Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock.

I got a girl named Bony Maronie, she's as skinny as a stick of macaroni.

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.