Quotes by Elvis Presley

• 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 think I have something tonight that's not quite correct for evening wear. Blue suede shoes.
• I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were.
• I never expected to be anybody important.
• I miss my singing career very much.
• 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.
• I'm trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It's so easy to get turned.
• I was an overnight sensation.
• When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.
• When I got outta High School I was driving a truck. I was just a poor boy from Memphis, Memphis.
• When I get married, it'll be no secret.
• Until we meet again, may God bless you as he has blessed me.
• Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.
• More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me.
• Too much TV hurts movies.
• Later on they send me to Hollywood. To make movies. It was all new to me. I was only 21 years old.
• Just because I managed to do a little something, I don't want anyone back home to think I got the big head.
• It's human nature to gripe, but I'm going ahead and doing the best I can.
• I've tried to lead a straight, clean life, not set any kind of a bad example.
• I've never written a song in my life. It's all a big hoax.
• I've been getting some bad publicity - but you got to expect that.
• I'm so nervous. I've always been nervous, ever since I was a kid.
• I'm strictly for Stevenson. I don't dig the intellectual bit, but I'm telling you, man, he knows the most.
• I was training to be an electrician. I suppose I got wired the wrong way round somewhere along the line.
• I'm not trying to be sexy. It's just my way of expressing myself when I move around.
• I'm no hillbilly singer.
• I'll stay in Memphis.
• 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'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'd just like to be treated like a regular customer.
• The Lord can give, and the Lord can take away. I might be herding sheep next year.
• I don't do any vulgar movements.
• There are too many people that depend on me. I'm too obligated. I'm in too far to get out.
• 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 like entertaining people. I really miss it.
• I learned how important it is to entertain people and give them a reason to come and watch you play.
• I knew by heart all the dialogue of James Dean's films; I could watch Rebel Without a Cause a hundred times over.
• I hope I didn't bore you too much with my life story.
• I have no use for bodyguards, but I have very specific use for two highly trained certified public accountants.
• I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.
• Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.
• I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
• 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.'
• I did the Ed Sullivan show four times. I did the Steve Allen show. I did the Jackie Gleason show.
• From the time I was a kid, I always knew something was going to happen to me. Didn't know exactly what.
• Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.
• Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.
• My movements, ma'am, are all leg movements. I don't do nothing with my body.
• After a hard day of basic training, you could eat a rattlesnake.
• Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Since the beginning, it was just the same. The only difference, the crowds are bigger now.
• The army teaches boys to think like men.
• Those movies sure got me into a rut.
• They put me on television. And the whole thing broke loose. It was wild, I tell ya for sure.
• Man, I really like Vegas.
• The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.
• 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.
• Those people in New York are not gonna change me none.
• People ask me where I got my singing style. I didn't copy my style from anybody.
• 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.
• Dream big and dare to fail, for in failures lie the seeds of extraordinary success.