Top 252 Quotes & Sayings by Elvis Presley - Page 3

Don't criticize that man unless you have walked in his shoes.

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.

Computers may out think us one day, but as long as people got feelings we'll be better than they are.

When I was a child, ladies and gentlemen, I was a dreamer. I read comic books, and I was the hero of the comic book. I saw movies, and I was the hero in the movie. So every dream I ever dreamed, has come true a hundred times... I learned very early in life that "Without a song, the day would never end; without a song, a man ain't got a friend; without a song, the road would never bend - without a song." So I keep singing a song. Goodnight. Thank you.

A lot of people seem to think I started this business. But rock 'n' roll was here a long time before I came along. Nobody can sing that kind of music like colored people. Let's face it: I can't sing like Fats Domino can. I know that.

Since I was two years old, all I knew was gospel music. That music became such a part of my life it was as natural as dancing. A way to escape from the problems. And my way of release.

When we kiss my heart's on fire, burning with a strange desire. And I know that every time I kiss you, that your heart's on fire, too.

The greatest voice of all time.

If one can't give what they have and share then they will always be empty

When you get down to the nitty gritty, isn't it a pity that in this big city not one little bitty man will admit that he could have been a little wrong.

Life has taught me one big lesson, always keep the girlies guessing.

Gonna travel, gonna travel wild and free I'm gonna pack my bags because this great big world is calling me

The first time that I appeared on stage, it scared me to death. I really didn't know what all the yelling was about. I didn't realize that my body was moving. It's a natural thing to me. So to the manager backstage I said, "What'd I do? What'd I do?" And he said, "Whatever it is, go back and do it again."

I'm lonely like Adam and you're evil like Eve.

Like a river flows surely to the sea/Darling so it goes/Some things are meant to be/Take my hand, take my whole life too/For I can't help falling in love with you.

Rock and roll is a music, and why should a music contribute to ... juvenile delinquency? If people are going to be juvenile delinquents, they're going to be delinquents if they hear ... Mother Goose rhymes.

We do two shows a night for five weeks. A lotta times we'll go upstairs and sing until daylight - gospel songs. We grew up with it...It more or less puts your mind at ease. It does mine.

I wouldn't call girls a hobby. It's a pastime.

I forgot to remember to forget.

Everything is so dreamy when you are young. After you grow up it kind of becomes -- just real.

Take care of the fans and they will sure as hell take care of you.

[It's] funny how things have a way of looking so much brighter in the daytime.

Viva Las Vegas with your neon flashin' and your one arm bandits crashin' all those hopes down the drain. Viva Las Vegas turnin' day into nighttime, turnin night into daytime. If you see it once, you'll never be the same again.

I feel so alone sometimes. The night is quiet for me. I'd love to be able to sleep. I'll probably not rest. I have no need for all this. Help me, Lord.

I learned very early in life that: 'Without a song, the day would never end; without a friend, a man ain't got a friend; without a song, the road would never bend-without a song.' So I keep singing a song.

I'm with a crowd but oh so alone.

I figure all any kid needs is hope and the feeling he or she belongs.

All the stars will tell the story, of our love and all its glory. Let us make this night of magic, and make it a night of love.

Take your troubles to the Chapel, get down on your knees and pray. Your burdens will be lighter, and you'll surely find the way.

A hard headed woman, a soft hearted man, been the cause of trouble ever since the world began.

Memories, pressed between the pages of my mind. Memories, sweetened through the ages just like wine.

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine. Ain't nowhere else in the world where you can go from driving a truck to cadillac overnight

Once I catch you and the kissing starts, a team of wild horses couldn't tear us apart.

I believe in the Bible. I believe that all good things come from God. I don't believe I'd sing the way I do if God hadn't wanted me to.'

If you're smart, you'll think twice, when they start to sound off with advice.

If you wanna be loved, baby, you've got to love me, too. Oh yeah, cause I an't for no one side love affair.

I just know that, right now, ... the biggest record selling business there is is rock and roll.

I wore glasses, no music, and I won - I think it was - fifth place. I got a whipping the same day. My mother whipped me for something. Destroyed my ego completely.

I'll be a fool or a wiseman, my darling, you hold the key. Anyway you want me, that's how I will be.

The only kind of trouble I've ever been in is when I was stealing eggs when I was little. I think I know right from wrong.

I don't like to be called Elvis the Pelvis. It's one of the most childish expressions I've ever heard coming from an adult. But if they wanna call me that, there's nothin' I can do about it, so I just have to accept it.

The first car I bought was the most beautiful car I've ever seen. It was secondhand, but I parked it outside of my hotel the day I got it. I sat up all night, just lookin' at it.

Money honey, if you want to get along with me.

I've spent a life time waiting for the right time, now that you're near, the time is here at last.

I'm not kidding myself. My voice alone is just an ordinary voice. What people come to see is how I use it. If I stand still while I'm singing, I'm dead, man. I might as well go back to driving a truck.

The man who can sing when he hasn't got a thing, he's the king of the whole wide world.

NUTHIN' more fun than Rock n' Roll!

In this day and time you can't even get sick; you are strung-out! Well by God, I'll tell you something, friend: I have never been strung-out in my life, except on music!

The child needs a helping hand or he'll grow up to be an angry young man some day.

Love is a thing you never can share.

I'm never going to sing another song I don't believe in. I'm never going to make another picture I don't believe in.

You're just a natural beehive, filled with honey to the top. Well, I ain't greedy baby, all I want is all you got.

Your kisses lift me higher...like the sweet song of a choir. You light my morning sky, with burning love.

Maybe I didn't treat you Quite as good as I should have Maybe I didn't love you Quite as often as I could have Little things I should have said and done I just never took the time You were always on my mind You were always on my mind

I look at you and wham, I'm head over heals. I guess that love is like a banana peel.

All I want is to know the truth, to know and experience God. I'm a searcher, that's what I'm all about.

I like pork chops and country ham, creamed potatoes, stuff like that. Redeye gravy. It comes from ham, bacon, stuff like that. It's the grease that you fry it in. I eat a lot of Jell-O. Fruit Jell-O.

Where could I go but to the Lord?

I'd rather go on hearing your lies, than to go on living without you.

Man, I was tame compared to what they do now. Are you kidding? I didn't do anything but just jiggle.