But I was singing loud, and most singers weren't singing loud.
God gives us the ability, but rock 'n' roll was created by men.
I invented rock & roll. Jimi Hendrix was my guitar player. James Brown was my vocalist.
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 did what I felt, and I felt what I did, at all costs.
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.