Bill Haley Quotes

I'm a songwriter who just wants to bring people great songs.

As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.

It's always a live experience - anything that happens around you. It's so easy to just put it to a song.

My lyrical content is all about entertainment.

Singing is what got me into everything and made me fall in love with this industry.

I just want to make good music. That's it. That's what I care about.

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a moody folk singer, sitting on stools and being very depressing.

Music and acting kind of all goes together.

Fifty per cent of rock is having a good time.

I love the fact that I can go out there on stage with a guitar and sing a song that means something to somebody.

I don't have to sit around and wait for the next movie to come along, I can go out and sing.

If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It's a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.

There are so many great songs yet to sing.

If the beat gets to the audience, and the message touches them, you've got a hit.

It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.

I enjoy singing my songs in front of people.

I write some country music. There's a song called 'I Hope You Dance.' Incredible. I was going to write that poem; somebody beat me to it.

'Firecracker' was such a fun song to write and to perform.

Rock and roll is a contact sport. I enjoy playing the tunes that really get the people going.

You know I want to sing for people, I want to jazz people up I want to make new music that they've never heard.

I want to write songs people can sing along to. I can think of nothing more exciting than travelling the world and playing to audiences and having them sing your words along with you.

I love to rock 'n roll. But my finest suit, of all the things I do, is as a songwriter.

I really like the thing I did with Martina McBride. I had that song sitting around for a long time.

I'm writing songs to perform, to entertain. And when I'm really trying to get inspired, I go backwards, and I just rap.

I'm an entertainer, period. But I'd probably have to say my passion is in singing. I'm willing to go broke singing.