Elvis Presley Quotes
"I think I have something tonight that's not quite correct for evening wear. Blue suede shoes."
- Elvis Presley
(Related: Evening)
"I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were."
- Elvis Presley
(Related: Movies, Direction, Hollywood, Production, Songs)
"I never expected to be anybody important."
- Elvis Presley
"I miss my singing career very much."
- Elvis Presley
(Related: Career, Singing)
"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."
- Elvis Presley
(Related: Man, Meaning)
"I'm trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It's so easy to get turned."
- Elvis Presley
(Related: Trying, World)
"I was an overnight sensation."
- Elvis Presley
"When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream."
- Elvis Presley
(Related: Movies, Dream, Books)
"When I got outta High School I was driving a truck. I was just a poor boy from Memphis, Memphis."
- Elvis Presley
(Related: Driving, Poor, School)
"When I get married, it'll be no secret."
- Elvis Presley
"Whatever I will become will be what God has chosen for me."
- Elvis Presley
(Related: God, Will)
"Until we meet again, may God bless you as he has blessed me."
- Elvis Presley
(Related: God, May)
"Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away."
- Elvis Presley
(Related: Time, Truth, Sun)
"More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me."
- Elvis Presley
(Related: Home, Right, Want)
"Too much TV hurts movies."
- Elvis Presley
(Related: Movies)
"Later on they send me to Hollywood. To make movies. It was all new to me. I was only 21 years old."
- Elvis Presley
(Related: Movies, Hollywood, Old, Years)
"Just because I managed to do a little something, I don't want anyone back home to think I got the big head."
- Elvis Presley
(Related: Home, Want)
"It's human nature to gripe, but I'm going ahead and doing the best I can."
- Elvis Presley
(Related: Nature, Human nature)
"I've tried to lead a straight, clean life, not set any kind of a bad example."
- Elvis Presley
(Related: Life, Example)
"I've never written a song in my life. It's all a big hoax."
- Elvis Presley
(Related: Life, Song)
"I've been getting some bad publicity - but you got to expect that."
- Elvis Presley
(Related: Publicity)
"I'm so nervous. I've always been nervous, ever since I was a kid."
- Elvis Presley
"I'm strictly for Stevenson. I don't dig the intellectual bit, but I'm telling you, man, he knows the most."
- Elvis Presley
(Related: Man)
"I was training to be an electrician. I suppose I got wired the wrong way round somewhere along the line."
- Elvis Presley
(Related: Training, Wrong)
"I'm not trying to be sexy. It's just my way of expressing myself when I move around."
- Elvis Presley
(Related: Trying)
"I'm no hillbilly singer."
- Elvis Presley
"I'll stay in Memphis."
- Elvis Presley
"I'll never make it, it will never happen, because they're never going to hear me 'cause they're screaming all the time."
- Elvis Presley
(Related: Time, Will)
"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."
- Elvis Presley
(Related: Right, Smoking)
"I'd just like to be treated like a regular customer."
- Elvis Presley
(Related: Customer)
"The Lord can give, and the Lord can take away. I might be herding sheep next year."
- Elvis Presley
(Related: Sheep)
"I don't do any vulgar movements."
- Elvis Presley
"There are too many people that depend on me. I'm too obligated. I'm in too far to get out."
- Elvis Presley
(Related: People)
"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."
- Elvis Presley
(Related: Money, Ballads, Now, Singing)
"I like entertaining people. I really miss it."
- Elvis Presley
(Related: People)
"I learned how important it is to entertain people and give them a reason to come and watch you play."
- Elvis Presley
(Related: People, Play, Reason)
"I knew by heart all the dialogue of James Dean's films; I could watch Rebel Without a Cause a hundred times over."
- Elvis Presley
(Related: Heart, Cause)
"I hope I didn't bore you too much with my life story."
- Elvis Presley
(Related: Life, Hope)
"I have no use for bodyguards, but I have very specific use for two highly trained certified public accountants."
- Elvis Presley
(Related: Public)
"I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend."
- Elvis Presley
(Related: Business, Music)
"Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over."
- Elvis Presley
"I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to."
- Elvis Presley
(Related: Music)
"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.'"
- Elvis Presley
(Related: Music, Help)
"I did the Ed Sullivan show four times. I did the Steve Allen show. I did the Jackie Gleason show."
- Elvis Presley
"From the time I was a kid, I always knew something was going to happen to me. Didn't know exactly what."
- Elvis Presley
(Related: Time)
"Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens."
- Elvis Presley
(Related: Time, Grave, Old)
"Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine."
- Elvis Presley
(Related: Dream, Ambition)
"My movements, ma'am, are all leg movements. I don't do nothing with my body."
- Elvis Presley
(Related: Body, Nothing)
"After a hard day of basic training, you could eat a rattlesnake."
- Elvis Presley
(Related: Day, Training)
"Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity."
- Elvis Presley
(Related: Adversity, Man, Prosperity, Will)
"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."
- Elvis Presley
(Related: Business, Electricity, Favorite)
"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."
- Elvis Presley
(Related: People, Driving)
"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."
- Elvis Presley
(Related: Man, Now, Singing, Years)
"Since the beginning, it was just the same. The only difference, the crowds are bigger now."
- Elvis Presley
(Related: Beginning, Crowds, Difference, Now)
"That's why I hate to get started in these jam sessions. I'm always the last one to leave."
- Elvis Presley
(Related: Hate)
"The army teaches boys to think like men."
- Elvis Presley
(Related: Men, Army, Boys)
"Those movies sure got me into a rut."
- Elvis Presley
(Related: Movies)
"They put me on television. And the whole thing broke loose. It was wild, I tell ya for sure."
- Elvis Presley
(Related: Television)
"Man, I really like Vegas."
- Elvis Presley
(Related: Man)
"The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck."
- Elvis Presley
(Related: Fact, First, Singing)
"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."
- Elvis Presley
(Related: Movies, Thought, Army, First, Service)
"Those people in New York are not gonna change me none."
- Elvis Presley
(Related: Change, People)
"People ask me where I got my singing style. I didn't copy my style from anybody."
- Elvis Presley
(Related: People, Singing, Style)
"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."
- Elvis Presley
(Related: Being)