Elvis Presley Quotes & Sayings

I can't sing very well but I'd like to try. — Elvis Presley

What's the good of reaching 90, if you waste 89? — Elvis Presley

The greatest voice of all time. — Elvis Presley

We do two shows a night for five weeks. A lotta times we'll go upstairs and sing until daylight - gospel songs. We grew up with it ... It more or less puts your mind at ease. It does mine. — Elvis Presley

It's all a big hoax, honey. I never wrote a song in my life. I get one-third of the credit for recording it. It makes me look smarter than I am. I've never even had an idea for a song. Just once, mybe. — Elvis Presley

Envy someone an' it pulls you down. Admire them and it builds you up. Which makes more sense? — Elvis Presley

Maybe I didn't treat you Quite as good as I should have Maybe I didn't love you Quite as often as I could have Little things I should have said and done I just never took the time You were always on my mind You were always on my mind — Elvis Presley

A little less fight and a little more spark, close your mouth and open your heart. — Elvis Presley

I am not the King. Jesus Christ is the King. I'm just an entertainer. — Elvis Presley

I don't like people who are in politics for themselves and not for others. You want that, you can go into show business. — Elvis Presley

Little sister, don't you do what your big sister done. — Elvis Presley

Somebody does somethin' stupid, that's human. They don't stop when they see it's wrong, that's a fool. — Elvis Presley

I'm lonely like Adam and you're evil like Eve. — Elvis Presley

I did the Ed Sullivan show four times. I did the Steve Allen show. I did the Jackie Gleason show. — Elvis Presley

I've had a pretty good lesson in human nature. It's more important to try to surround yourself with people who can give you a little happiness, because you only pass through this life once, Jack. You don't come back for an encore. — Elvis Presley

I think most people have a natural instinct to rebel. — Elvis Presley

She touched my hand what a chill I got, her lips are like a volcano that's hot. — Elvis Presley

In this day and time you can't even get sick; you are strung-out! Well by God, I'll tell you something, friend: I have never been strung-out in my life, except on music! — Elvis Presley

I was an overnight sensation. — Elvis Presley

I'm evil, my middle name is misery. Well, I'm evil, so don't mess around with me. — Elvis Presley

Number 47 said to number 3, you're the cutest jailbird I ever did see. — Elvis Presley

Blacko-oxy-tonic phosphate, it's the latest scoop. But that's alright girls, you can call it goop. — Elvis Presley

Ah just act the way ah feel. — Elvis Presley

I've tried to lead a straight, clean life, not set any kind of a bad example. — Elvis Presley

I'm left, you're right, and she's gone. You're right, and I'm left all alone. — Elvis Presley

I'm not kidding myself. My voice alone is just an ordinary voice. What people come to see is how I use it. If I stand still while I'm singing, I'm dead, man. I might as well go back to driving a truck. — Elvis Presley

To judge a man by his weakest link or deed is like judging the power of the ocean by one wave. — Elvis Presley

Love me tender, love me sweet, never let me go. — Elvis Presley

My fans want my shirt. They can have my shirt. They put it on my back. — Elvis Presley

The army teaches boys to think like men. — Elvis Presley

I'm so lucky to be in the position to give. It's really a gift to give. — Elvis Presley

I don't like to be called Elvis the Pelvis. It's one of the most childish expressions I've ever heard coming from an adult. But if they wanna call me that, there's nothin' I can do about it, so I just have to accept it. — Elvis Presley

It's not just self defense, it's about ... self control, body discipline, and mind discipline ... and breath techniques. It involves yoga. It involves meditation. It's an art, not a sport. — Elvis Presley

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

Take my hand, take my whole life, too. — Elvis Presley

Too much TV hurts movies. — Elvis Presley

Do something worth remembering. — Elvis Presley

I don't feel I'll live a long life. That's why I have to get what I can from every day. — Elvis Presley

I forgot to remember to forget. — Elvis Presley

I'd just like to be treated like a regular customer. — Elvis Presley

You ain't nothing but hound dog, cryin' all the time. You ain't never caught a rabbit and you ain't no friend of mine. — Elvis Presley

The only exercise I get is on the stage. If I didn't get that, I'd get a little round around the tummy, as much as I eat. — Elvis Presley

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine — 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

I'm never going to sing another song I don't believe in. I'm never going to make another picture I don't believe in. — Elvis Presley

In my beach shack, we'll be alone. In my beach shack, I'll make you feel at home. — Elvis Presley

I look at you and wham, I'm head over heals. I guess that love is like a banana peel. — Elvis Presley

Make me feel at home, if you really care, scratch my back and run your pretty fingers through my hair. — Elvis Presley

Computers may out think us one day, but as long as people got feelings we'll be better than they are. — Elvis Presley

The sun's down and the moon's pretty - it's time to ramble. — Elvis Presley

I've been getting some bad publicity - but you got to expect that. — Elvis Presley

He holds his guitar like a Tommy gun. — Elvis Presley

NUTHIN' more fun than Rock n' Roll! — Elvis Presley

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

Any audience, as a rule, goes for a fast number. — Elvis Presley

Man, I really like Vegas. — Elvis Presley

I learned very early in life that: 'Without a song, the day would never end; without a friend, a man ain't got a friend; without a song, the road would never bend-without a song.' So I keep singing a song. — Elvis Presley

I don't mind being controversial. Even Jesus wasn't loved in his day. — Elvis Presley

I hope I didn't bore you too much with my life story. — Elvis Presley

Sad thing is, you can still love someone and be wrong for them. — Elvis Presley

I'm not trying to be sexy. It's just my way of expressing myself when I move around. — Elvis Presley

Animals don't hate, and we're supposed to be better than them. — Elvis Presley

I want to entertain people. That's my whole life. To my last breath. — Elvis Presley

Fingerprints are like values
you leave them all over everything you do — Elvis Presley

I can preach until your deaf and dumb, I'm in that soul saving army beating on that big bass drum. — Elvis Presley

Later on they send me to Hollywood. To make movies. It was all new to me. I was only 21 years old. — Elvis Presley

I like Brando's acting ... and James Dean ... and Richard Widmark. Quite a few of 'em I like. — Elvis Presley

If you let your head get too big, it'll break your neck. — Elvis Presley

Gonna travel, gonna travel wild and free
I'm gonna pack my bags because this great big world is calling me — Elvis Presley

I'm no hillbilly singer. — Elvis Presley

Live each day, as if it we're your last. It's written in the stars, your destiny is cast. — Elvis Presley

I was training to be an electrician. I suppose I got wired the wrong way round somewhere along the line. — Elvis Presley

A lot of people seem to think I started this business. But rock 'n' roll was here a long time before I came along. Nobody can sing that kind of music like colored people. Let's face it: I can't sing like Fats Domino can. I know that. — Elvis Presley

On a cold and gray Chicago morning another little baby child is born in the ghetto, and his Mama cries. — Elvis Presley

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

Be ye innocent as doves yet wise as serphants new testament quoted by Elvis Presley and applied to karate — Elvis Presley

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

The walls have ears, better think before you throw that shoe. — Elvis Presley

The only thing worse than watching a bad movie is being in one. — Elvis Presley

You've got to follow that dream, wherever that dream may lead. — Elvis Presley

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

I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend. — Elvis Presley

Don't criticize that man unless you have walked in his shoes. — Elvis Presley

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

I'm strictly for Stevenson. I don't dig the intellectual bit, but I'm telling you, man, he knows the most. — Elvis Presley

I ain't no saint, but I've tried never to do anything that would hurt my family or offend God ... I figure all any kid needs is hope and the feeling he or she belongs. If I could do or say anything that would give some kid that feeling, I would believe I had contributed something to the world. — Elvis Presley

I saw three shrimp in the water, two were old and gray. I swam a little closer, and I heard the third one say, good-bye Mama. — Elvis Presley

Do what's right for you, so long as it don't hurt no one. — Elvis Presley

I just know that, right now, ... the biggest record selling business there is is rock and roll. — Elvis Presley

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

[It's] funny how things have a way of looking so much brighter in the daytime. — Elvis Presley

Some guys fall in love with one girl, I gotta fall for two. — Elvis Presley

I never expected to be anybody important. — Elvis Presley

The first time that I appeared on stage, it scared me to death. I really didn't know what all the yelling was about. I didn't realize that my body was moving. It's a natural thing to me. So to the manager backstage I said, 'What'd I do? What'd I do?' And he said "Whatever it is, go back and do it again." — Elvis Presley

I learned how important it is to entertain people and give them a reason to come and watch you play. — Elvis Presley

Then came Act II, you seemed to change and acted strange, and why I'll never know. — Elvis Presley

Some people tap their feet, some people snap their fingers, and some people sway back and forth. I just sorta do 'em all together, I guess. — Elvis Presley

After a hard day of basic training, you could eat a rattlesnake. — Elvis Presley

When we're dancing it almost feels the same, I've got to stop myself from whispering your name. — Elvis Presley

Since my baby left me, I've found a new place to dwell, down at the end of Lonely Street at Heartbreak Hotel. — Elvis Presley