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Elvis Presley Quotes
“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.'”
“Man, I really like Vegas.”
“Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.”
“Those people in New York are not gonna change me none.”
“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.”
“I have no use for bodyguards, but I have very specific use for two highly trained certified public accountants.”
“I'll stay in Memphis.”
“I never expected to be anybody important.”
“I'm so nervous. I've always been nervous, ever since I was a kid.”
“I've never written a song in my life. It's all a big hoax.”
“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.”
“It's human nature to gripe, but I'm going ahead and doing the best I can.”
“I think I have something tonight that's not quite correct for evening wear. Blue suede shoes.”
“When I get married, it'll be no secret.”
“There are too many people that depend on me. I'm too obligated. I'm in too far to get out.”
“The army teaches boys to think like men.”
“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 was training to be an electrician. I suppose I got wired the wrong way round somewhere along the line.”
“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.”
“My movements, ma'am, are all leg movements. I don't do nothing with my body.”
“I'd just like to be treated like a regular customer.”
“Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.”
“I'm strictly for Stevenson. I don't dig the intellectual bit, but I'm telling you, man, he knows the most.”
“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'll never make it, it will never happen, because they're never going to hear me 'cause they're screaming all the time.”
“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 trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It's so easy to get turned.”
“More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me.”
“They put me on television. And the whole thing broke loose. It was wild, I tell ya for sure.”
“From the time I was a kid, I always knew something was going to happen to me. Didn't know exactly what.”
“I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.”
“I miss my singing career very much.”
“I knew by heart all the dialogue of James Dean's films; I could watch Rebel Without a Cause a hundred times over.”
“I've tried to lead a straight, clean life, not set any kind of a bad example.”
“Later on they send me to Hollywood. To make movies. It was all new to me. I was only 21 years old.”
“The Lord can give, and the Lord can take away. I might be herding sheep next year.”
“People ask me where I got my singing style. I didn't copy my style from anybody.”
“Just because I managed to do a little something, I don't want anyone back home to think I got the big head.”
“I don't do any vulgar movements.”
“I did the Ed Sullivan show four times. I did the Steve Allen show. I did the Jackie Gleason show.”
“Those movies sure got me into a rut.”
“After a hard day of basic training, you could eat a rattlesnake.”
“I've been getting some bad publicity - but you got to expect that.”
“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.”
“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.”
“When I got outta High School I was driving a truck. I was just a poor boy from Memphis, Memphis.”
“I'm no hillbilly singer.”
“That's why I hate to get started in these jam sessions. I'm always the last one to leave.”
“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.”
“Too much TV hurts movies.”
“Since the beginning, it was just the same. The only difference, the crowds are bigger now.”
“I like entertaining people. I really miss it.”
“I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were.”
“A little less fight and a little more spark, close your mouth and open your heart”
“Don't leave my embrace for here in my arms is your place.”
“I feel my temperature rising. Help me, I'm flaming, I must be a hundred and nine.”
“I would beg and steal just to feel your heart beating close to mine.”
“If you cry when you're in love, it sure ain't no disgrace.”
“Little sister, don't you do what your big sister done.”
“Money honey, if you want to get along with me.”
“Take my hand, take my whole life too, but I can't help falling in love with you.”
“There's no job too immense, when you got confidence.”
“When things go wrong, don't go with them.”
“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.”
“For what is a man, what has he got? If not himself, then he has naught. To say the things he truly feels, and not the words of one who kneels.”
“I forgot to remember to forget.”
“I'm in town on a harem holiday.”
“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.”
“Love me tender, love me true, all my dreams fulfill. For my darling, I love you, and I always will.”
“Never wait for tomorrow, what if tomorrow never comes?”
“The child needs a helping hand or he'll grow up to be an angry young man some day.”
“Trust is like the sun, you can shut it out for a time but it ain't going away.”
