Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American musician Bill Haley.
Last updated on April 15, 2025.
William John Clifton Haley was an American rock and roll musician. He is credited by many with first popularizing this form of music in the early 1950s with his group Bill Haley & His Comets and million-selling hits such as "Rock Around the Clock", "See You Later, Alligator", "Shake, Rattle and Roll", "Rocket 88", "Skinny Minnie", and "Razzle Dazzle". His recordings have sold over 60 million records worldwide. In 1987, he was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
See you later, alligator. After a while, crocodile.
She was so small she could make mamba in a telephone booth.
The music is the main thing and it's just as easy to write acceptable words.
I sat down one night and wrote the line rock, rock, rock everybody.
We take a lot of care with lyrics because we don't want to offend anybody.
The road can be hard on a kid if he's not careful.
When the clock strikes 2, 3, and 4, if the band slows down we'll yell for more.
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.