“Rock n roll stops the traffic”

— Bono

Message spray-painted onto the Vaillancourt fountain during a free concert in San Francisco (11 November 1987)

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Bono 172

Irish rock musician, singer of U2 1960

Lester Bangs (1948–1982) American music critic and journalist

“Rock 'n' roll. Deal with it.”

Bret Easton Ellis The Rules of Attraction

Source: The Rules of Attraction

“She gets rock n roll, a rock n roll station
And a rock n roll dream.
She's making movies on location.
She don't know what it means.
But the music make her wanna be the story.
And the story was whatever was the song, what it was.
Rollergirl don't worry.
D. J. plays the movies all night long.”

Mark Knopfler (1949) English guitarist

Skateaway
Song lyrics, Making Movies (1980)

“I am a ham. I've no business being rock 'n' roll. I've said it over and over again that I'm a classical composer, dishevelling my personality by dabbling in rock 'n' roll.”

John Cale (1942) Welsh composer, singer-songwriter and record producer

Attributed without citation at John Cale - Quotes, xs4all.nl, 16 November 2012 http://werksman.home.xs4all.nl/cale/quotes/index.html,

“Sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll is easy. True christianity…that's rebellion.”

Alice Cooper (1948) American rock singer, songwriter and musician

“He could very well be the Duke Ellington of Rock 'n' Roll.”

Miles Davis (1926–1991) American jazz musician

In [A Change is Gonna Come: Music, Race & the Soul of America, Craig Hansen, Werner, University of Michigan Press, 2006, 9780472031474, 53] as: he can be the Duke Ellington of our times.
And in [Miles on Miles: Interviews and Encounters with Miles Davis, Musicians in Their Own Words Series, Paul Maher, Michael K. Dorr, Chicago Review Press, 2009, 9781556527067, 262] as: Do you know who Prince kinda reminds me of, particularly as a piano player? Duke! Yeah, he's the Duke Ellington of the eighties to my way of thinking.
On Prince
2000s