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Elvis Presley Quotes


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.

More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me.

My movements, ma'am, are all leg movements. I don't do nothing with my body.

People ask me where I got my singing style. I didn't copy my style from anybody.

Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.

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.'

Since the beginning, it was just the same. The only difference, the crowds are bigger now.

That's why I hate to get started in these jam sessions. I'm always the last one to leave.

The army teaches boys to think like men.

The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.

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.

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.

The Lord can give, and the Lord can take away. I might be herding sheep next year.

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.

There are too many people that depend on me. I'm too obligated. I'm in too far to get out.

They put me on television. And the whole thing broke loose. It was wild, I tell ya for sure.

Those movies sure got me into a rut.

Those people in New York are not gonna change me none.

Too much TV hurts movies.

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.