I saw Uncle John with Long Tall Sally, he saw Aunt Mary coming and he ducked back in the alley.

It's hard to have a friend when your name's a household word.

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

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.

A lot of people call me the architect of rock & roll. I don't call myself that, but I believe it's true.

I think people who don't believe in God are crazy. How can you say there is no God when you hear the birds singing these beautiful songs you didn't make?

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