Top 208 Memphis Quotes & Sayings

'Memphis' lives in me, and I'm bringing it around the world.

I get advice from all the producers who have come out of Memphis. They just give me advice on the business side, because that's most important besides the actual music. Just staying at a point I know I can't mess myself up. I just got to be put up on game about it. Drumma Boy and Memphis Track Boy taught me a lot.

Real respects real, so if you can get Memphis to love you, you have to have something real there. Memphis doesn't just support anybody.

I rap about Memphis and what a dangerous spot that is.

I grew up Southern Baptist, so my experience was fairly conservative. Not archly so, but I think Memphis - when you get to certain parts of Memphis - are more liberal for sure. But I grew up, until I was about 13 or 14, in a section called Whitehaven, and then we moved to a suburb called Germantown - which is a pretty conservative area.

The fact is, I'm the biggest rapper from Memphis, I help a lot of rappers from Memphis.

Memphis don't bluff. It's a tight knit community.

I get called 'Memphis Eve,' but my first name is Eve. I know Memphis is in there somewhere, but on my passport I'm 'Eve Sunny Day Hewson.

It's been a pleasure to bring my talents to south beach now on to Memphis.

What I most look forward to about traveling to MEMPHIS is the great food.

I cannot be anyone else but Memphis. I tried that, and I was not happy with myself.

I get called 'Memphis Eve,' but my first name is Eve. I know Memphis is in there somewhere, but on my passport I'm 'Eve Sunny Day Hewson.'

God chose Memphis as the place that I will continue my career.

It just so happened that the sound I've developed has the Memphis origins to it that made Drake wanted to work with it.

Not really anything wrong with Memphis. New York is just more where I wanted to be.

For me, Memphis has always been a city that holds a great deal of meaning and also leads me to a lot of thinking. Besides Sun Studio, which helped put rock n' roll on the map all over the world, the legendary Stax Studio also called Memphis home.

God bless the boys from Memphis, blue suede shoes, and Elvis.

I was in the ministry for some time. All my family is immersed in a black church in Memphis.

I got arrested once on stage in Memphis for looking too much like Liza Minnelli.

I'd been to Memphis before, but we stayed out of Memphis early on in the late 70s for obvious reasons. People were very sensitive about Elvis Presley, and my stage name obviously would be provocative to some people in that area at that time.

I accepted an offer to do a concert for the reopening of the Mall of Memphis.

There are so many people in Memphis who have real reasons to be angsty, but I was just a suburban white kid with all this misplaced rage.

She would go to Memphis and this was after our divorce. And I would send her to Memphis to be with him.

As far as Memphis being underrated, I feel like a lot of people have slept on Memphis music when it comes to breaking through into the mainstream.

The support this city and our fans have shown the Grizzlies made my decision to stay in Memphis an easy one. Memphis deserves a championship team, and I am committed to that.

It's easy to forget about the Memphis Grizzlies because, well, they play in Memphis.

I love Memphis, and just being there affects one's outlook.

That was the big thing when I was growing up, singing on the radio. The extent of my dream was to sing on the radio station in Memphis. Even when I got out of the Air Force in 1954, I came right back to Memphis and started knocking on doors at the radio station.

'Hurt Village' is based on a real housing project in Memphis, about three minutes away from the Lorraine Hotel where Dr. King was assassinated, so in my work I'm focusing on a very specific area in Memphis. I see 'Hurt Village' as a natural extension of 'The Mountaintop.'

No such thing as a hard woman, Memphis,just soft men. With that, I turned, and the others followed me.

Walking in Memphis, I was walking with my feet ten feet off of Beale. Walking in Memphis, but do I really feel the way I feel?

I grew up in Memphis, Tennessee; I went to college in New Orleans before moving to New York City for graduate school. Both sets of my grandparents grew up in rural Mississippi and brought a lot of agrarian knowledge to Memphis, which is an urban center in the South. Both sets had amazing backyard gardens. My paternal grandfather, practically every inch of available space was green.

I'm a success story. Everybody from Memphis knows that, that's why don't nobody question it.

Memphis is like the heart of wrestling.

I'll stay in Memphis.

Most guys my age have girlfriends and drinking buddies on their speed dial. Me, I have the Memphis CDC.

Memphis wasn't hot before Dolph came out.

I try to think about Elvis, Memphis, Oprah in the afternoon.

Memphis found his smile. 'You know me, sir. I don't wear worry.

I watched a lot of great players come through Memphis.

I would say New York, Chicago, Memphis, and Los Angeles were my favorites.

Most studios in Memphis had a house set of drums; the drummers just brought their own sticks.

The man on the radio says Elvis Presley's died. We drove to Memphis, the sky was hard and black.

Memphis is in a very lucky position on the map. Everything just gravitated to Memphis for years.

When I got outta High School I was driving a truck. I was just a poor boy from Memphis, Memphis.

I'm working on this documentary. It's called 'Walking Home With Baby,' and when I say 'Walking Home With Baby,' it's a hood in Memphis. This is where I come from. This is my hood in Memphis - the South of Memphis.

In Memphis I always had the ball.

When you come to Memphis you get the family vibe. All of my partners, friends, they're from my neighborhood.

I sang in church growing up. Memphis is the blues capital of the world, we like to say.

My relationship with the Grizzlies might change, but my relationship with Memphis won't. What I feel inside and how I feel about Memphis and its people has nothing to do with a franchise or a temporary thing. It's not going to change.

Mississippi begins in a lobby of a Memphis, Tennessee hotel and extends south to the Gulf of Mexico

Everybody that's come to Memphis has been welcome with open arms.

We need more Memphis culture in the industry.

In Memphis we don't talk. We ball.

When I go back home, I feel like Michael Jackson in Memphis. They love me.

I love Memphis, I guess you could say, in the way that you love a brother even if he does sometimes puzzle and sadden and frustrate you. Say what you want about it, it's an authentic place. I was born and raised in Memphis, and no matter where I go, Memphis belongs to me, and I to it.

You can't change what Memphis means to me, what Memphis has meant to me. It's a special place for me. There's no doubt.

The many sounds of Memphis shaped my early musical career and continue to be an inspiration to this day.

I always liked making the 'vibe music' more 'cause I feel like you can get more creative on it. Memphis is for sure like the grimey. In my hype music, the Memphis comes out of me - but when I try to vibe, I feel the Caribbean culture come out.

Growing up in Memphis, I have always admired St. Jude's for the magnificent work they do.