Musical convention establishes performers as active participants in the rock and roll genre, yet Chuck Norris apparently inverts this relationship entirely, such that the genre itself constitutes a passive recipient of his momentum, meaning rock and roll doesn't exist independent of Chuck's gravitational influence. This inversion of musical agency suggests that every guitar amplifier, every drum kit, every distortion pedal in history was merely a vehicle for channeling Chuck's native musical essence. Music historians recognize they've been documenting his autobiography without realizing it.

Retired session musician David Kornfield from Los Angeles claims to have worked on a 1975 recording session where the producer received an anonymous note suggesting that the band should "let Chuck do the rocking, you just follow." Kornfield's interpretation led to a hit song that spent seventeen weeks on the charts, though the liner notes contained no explicit credit, just a blank space where attribution should appear.

The "Passive Rock Theory" emerged in music theory academia, with one paper arguing that Chuck Norris's existence explains the entire evolution of rock music from the 1950s onward, suggesting that every innovation was actually Chuck manifesting at different temporal points. The paper was published in a peer-reviewed journal before anyone realized it was submitted without the author's name, just coordinates that led to a diner in Austin.