Top 252 Quotes & Sayings by Elvis Presley
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Last updated on September 10, 2024.
I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.
Those movies sure got me into a rut.
It's human nature to gripe, but I'm going ahead and doing the best I can.
From the time I was a kid, I always knew something was going to happen to me. Didn't know exactly what.
Since the beginning, it was just the same. The only difference, the crowds are bigger now.
Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.
My movements, ma'am, are all leg movements. I don't do nothing with my body.
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
I like entertaining people. I really miss it.
I'll never feel comfortable taking a strong drink, and I'll never feel easy smoking a cigarette. I just don't think those things are right for me.
I've tried to lead a straight, clean life, not set any kind of a bad example.
I have no use for bodyguards, but I have very specific use for two highly trained certified public accountants.
Too much TV hurts movies.
I don't think I'm bad for people. If I did think I was bad for people, I would go back to driving a truck, and I really mean this.
I'm no hillbilly singer.
The army teaches boys to think like men.
Just because I managed to do a little something, I don't want anyone back home to think I got the big head.
More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me.
I miss my singing career very much.
The image is one thing and the human being is another. It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.
I was an overnight sensation.
The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.
When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.
Until we meet again, may God bless you as he has blessed me.
Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.
I'm not trying to be sexy. It's just my way of expressing myself when I move around.
I like to sing ballads the way Eddie Fisher does and the way Perry Como does. But the way I'm singing now is what makes the money.
I think I have something tonight that's not quite correct for evening wear. Blue suede shoes.
I'm strictly for Stevenson. I don't dig the intellectual bit, but I'm telling you, man, he knows the most.
I did the Ed Sullivan show four times. I did the Steve Allen show. I did the Jackie Gleason show.
When I got outta High School I was driving a truck. I was just a poor boy from Memphis, Memphis.
After a hard day of basic training, you could eat a rattlesnake.
There are too many people that depend on me. I'm too obligated. I'm in too far to get out.
I was training to be an electrician. I suppose I got wired the wrong way round somewhere along the line.
The Lord can give, and the Lord can take away. I might be herding sheep next year.
I learned how important it is to entertain people and give them a reason to come and watch you play.
I was an only child, and Mother was always right with me all my life. I used to get very angry at her when I was growing up-it's a natural thing.
Man, that record came out and was real big in Memphis. They started playing it, and it got real big. Don't know why-the lyrics had no meaning.
I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were.
When I get married, it'll be no secret.
I'm trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It's so easy to get turned.
I don't do any vulgar movements.
People ask me where I got my singing style. I didn't copy my style from anybody.
I hope I didn't bore you too much with my life story.
Whatever I will become will be what God has chosen for me.
Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me. I can't help it.'
I'll stay in Memphis.
Later on they send me to Hollywood. To make movies. It was all new to me. I was only 21 years old.
Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
I'm so nervous. I've always been nervous, ever since I was a kid.
I knew by heart all the dialogue of James Dean's films; I could watch Rebel Without a Cause a hundred times over.
The next thing I knew, I was out of the service and making movies again. My first picture was called, GI Blues. I thought I was still in the army.
The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I'm doin' now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them.
They put me on television. And the whole thing broke loose. It was wild, I tell ya for sure.
Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.
Man, I really like Vegas.
I'll never make it, it will never happen, because they're never going to hear me 'cause they're screaming all the time.
I never expected to be anybody important.
A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage. It's my favorite part of the business, live concerts.
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