Bill Haley Quotes

#1. I loved rock and roll when that came in, Bill Haley, Little Richard, Fats Domino, Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley, all those great records. So I begged my mom and dad for a guitar, which eventually they did get me for Christmas, but it went out of tune very quickly, and it hurt my fingers.

Ian McLagan

#2. There was not a lot of rock n' roll in the house. Our parents didn't think it was very groovy, and I tend to agree with them. If you grew up with Charlie Parker, Bill Haley wasn't very hip.

Elvis Costello

#3. But when we listened to the radio, it was Bill Haley and the Comets or the Everly Brothers.

Carly Simon

#4. Knowledge must be fixed in some way if it is to be preserved," said the sheikh. "That's why the Quran isn't meant to be altered. There were other prophets sent to other peoples, but because their books were altered, their knowledge was lost.

G. Willow Wilson

#5. Rock 'n' roll is just entertainment, and the kids who like to identify their youthful high spirits with a solid beat are thus possibly avoiding other pursuits that could be harmful to them.

Bill Haley

#6. See you later, alligator. After a while, crocodile.

Bill Haley

#7. We're gonna rock around the clock.

Bill Haley

#8. We steer completely clear of anything suggestive.

Bill Haley

#9. For a bill to become law, it truly has to be the will of the people, and for a president to stop the will of the people and stop what you're trying to do in your state is not the role of Washington.

Nikki Haley

#10. When the clock strikes 2, 3, and 4, if the band slows down we'll yell for more.

Bill Haley

#11. There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy

Henry Miller

#12. The road can be hard on a kid if he's not careful.

Bill Haley

#13. I was caged in our body and caged in his arms and, somehow, the former was the real prison.

Kat Zhang

#14. Whenever one does extraordinary things, someone is bound to try to repeat them for themselves. It's the way of the world.

Catherynne M Valente

#15. We take a lot of care with lyrics because we don't want to offend anybody.

Bill Haley

#16. No matter what, your parents are going to worry about you. I had a tour bus, and my mother still thought I was broke. Remember: It's your life, not theirs. Just because your parents sent you to college doesn't mean they bought the rest of your life.

Lewis Black

#17. The music is the main thing and it's just as easy to write acceptable words.

Bill Haley

#18. Where we stand depends on where we sit.

Stephen R. Covey

#19. The library knows its own mind...When it steals a boy, we let it keep him.

Laini Taylor

#20. I sat down one night and wrote the line rock, rock, rock everybody.

Bill Haley

#21. Who knows who's waiting right now for one of us to invite them into God's family?

Louie Giglio

#22. She was so small she could make mamba in a telephone booth.

Bill Haley

#23. The "standard physician employment agreement" is a mythical creature.

Dennis Hursh

#24. I have been fortunate. I have done so many things and enjoyed so many things and had such a great life, not to imply that it is ending, but that there aren't many things that I feel I have left undone.

Lois Lowry

#25. My favorite showed Mimi and Deke doing the twist at a school dance. She looked like she was having fun; he looked like a man with a fair-sized stick up his ass.

Stephen King