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.

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

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

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

We're gonna rock around the clock.

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

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

At this age - I'm 44 - I think life's too short. I want it to mean something to me, if I'm going to spend that much time doing it.

I am mainly concerned with unqualified knowledge, by contrast with the varieties of expert knowledge: scientific knowledge of various sorts, legal knowledge, medically expert knowledge, and so on.

In the decisive moment I won the victory over myself. I chose to live. And believe me, it takes courage to choose life under those circumstances.

I look at my career and it's still hard for me to believe the way things turned out and how things happened. I've been so blessed.

The Infusion of a China plant sweetened with the pith of an Indian Cane.

You gotta know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, know when to walk away, know when to run.

The complaint that church is boring is never made by people in awe.

Live in a perpetual great astonishment.

Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.

Communists liked history very much. It just had to be the right history. They liked to remember it selectively.