Rock-and-roll starts between the legs and goes through the heart, then to the head. As long as it does those three things, it's a great rock song.
—John Mellencamp
There is no music like that music, no drama like the drama of the saints rejoicing, the sinners moaning, the tambourines racing, and all those voices coming together and crying holy unto the Lord.… I have never seen anything to equal the fire and excitement that sometimes, without warning, fill a church, causing the church, as Leadbelly and so many others have testified, to "rock.
—James Baldwin