Presley Quotes & Sayings

There's no job too immense, when you got confidence. — Elvis Presley

Apparently, organizers kept Elvis Presley from joining his school's glee club. They said his voice would ruin their sound. — Ken Robinson

Don't criticize what you don't understand, son. You never walked in that man's shoes. — Elvis Presley

Especially with four insanely angry, sword-carrying pirates bearing down on you, followed closely by an alien with a genetic malfunction that posed like Elvis Presley and looked slightly like a cross between a koala and a cuddly dog. — Ridley Pearson

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

I reckon it's true what they say that good begets good and bad begets bad. The evil men do lives on after them, but what good they done gets buried with their bones. — Lisa Kaye Presley

Hey buddy, don't you be no square, if you can't find a partner use a wooden chair. — Elvis Presley

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

You're no Elvis Presley, I'm no Marilyn Monroe, but I do think you're sexy, just thought I'd tell you so. — Dolly Parton

This was the plan: we would take a holy and sacred picture of the King of Rock 'n' Roll, Elvis Presley, to the very summit of the earth; once there, we would place it with sincere reverence amongst the chimerical shimmering palaces of ice and snow and then (accompanied by some weird Zen magic) we would light joss sticks, dance about making screechy kung-fu noises, get off our faces, and that would be it: Planet Earth saved. Simple. — Mark Manning

From the time I was a kid, I always knew something was going to happen to me. Didn't know exactly what. — Elvis Presley

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

I'm not a star. I'll never be a Frank Sinatra or Elvis Presley or a Ray Charles. I'm just an imitator, man. I'm doing a very bad imitation on the bass of Jerry Jemmott, Bernard Odum, Jimmy Fielder, Jimmy Blanton, Igor Stravinsky, Jimi Hendrix, John Coltrane, James Brown, Charlie Parker ... the cats, man. I'm just backing up the cats. — Jaco Pastorius

I was an overnight sensation. — Elvis Presley

Don't tell me baby you gotta go, I got the hifi high and the lights down low. — Elvis Presley

She would go to Memphis and this was after our divorce. And I would send her to Memphis to be with him. — Priscilla Presley

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Woss the matter with you?" asked Big Ted, irritably. "Go on. Press 'D.' Elvis Presley died in 1976."
I DON'T CARE WHAT IT SAYS, said the tall biker in the helmet, I NEVER LAID A FINGER ON HIM. — Terry Pratchett

My mom took my sister and me to see Elvis [Presley] in concert when was, maybe 5 or 6, and I liked everything about it. — Billy Gibbons

I absolutely refuse to bare midriff. — Lisa Marie Presley

How many people have a family grave in the backyard? I'm sure I'll end up there, or I'll shrink my head and put it in a glass box in the living room. I'll get more tourists to Graceland that way. — Lisa Marie Presley

If sunshine took human form, like some Greek myth, she would be Presley Shaw. — Emma Chase

I came close to signing Elvis Presley. I offered $25,000 for his contract and they asked for $45,000 and I just didn't have the other $20,000. — Ahmet Ertegun

Anytime I was in Memphis with my dad and at the house, I was happy. That was, like, a given. It was what I lived for. And I still feel the same excitement and warmth. — Lisa Marie Presley

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

Teenagers are my life and my triumph. I'd be nowhere without them. — 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

I don't sing to people. I sing for them. I told that once to Elvis Presley. He bought it. After that Elvis sang not to but for the audience. A subtle difference. — Tony Martin

And when Elvis was unhappy, believe me, everyone was unhappy. — Priscilla Presley

I've never even been out of my BMI range. I'm 5-foot-3. If I gain five pounds, it shows. — Lisa Marie Presley

I remember him watching me through the crack of a door singing with a hairbrush. I was in front of his mirror. I think he wanted me to sing. He would get me on the table and make me sing sometimes or play the piano. He was very encouraging on that front. — Lisa Marie Presley

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

I like pork chops and country ham, creamed potatoes, stuff like that. Redeye gravy. It comes from ham, bacon, stuff like that. It's the grease that you fry it in. I eat a lot of Jell-O. Fruit Jell-O. — Elvis Presley

The parallels between Elvis and Michael Jackson as incredible artists is evident. But I think that where Michael Jackson even transcends Elvis Presley. — Michael Eric Dyson

Folks always look good in their coffins. — Elvis Presley

Friends are people you can talk to ... without words when you have to. — 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

Music has always gotten me through life, particularly honest, real music. — Lisa Marie Presley

If you're smart, you'll think twice, when they start to sound off with advice. — Elvis Presley

Everybody comes from the same source. If you hate another human being, you're hating part of yourself. — Elvis Presley

Look guys, if you're just going to stare at me, I'm going to bed! — Elvis Presley

I don't feel very good about myself. People always leave me. Nobody can stand me for very long. I wish I could cut my tongue out, or take out the part of my brain that has opinions. Or cares. I wish I could be simple. Be quiet, introverted, or shy. I'm half way in between a wallflower at a party and Elvis Presley. People love one or the other. In between is no place to be. — Jack White

I believe in the Bible. I believe that all good things come from God. I don't believe I'd sing the way I do if God hadn't wanted me to.' — Elvis Presley

Elvis Presley, you can't define him in a couple of sentences, but he was a country boy and he was very respectful. — Jerry Leiber

I love singing some Johnny Cash, which is interesting because it's in a guy's key; I love singing Elvis Presley. — Samantha Barks

People are quite shocked when you remind them that Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra never wrote a song that they recorded in their lives, as far as I know. — Robert Wyatt

Fame and fortune, how empty they can be. — Elvis Presley

It's human nature to gripe, but I'm going ahead and doing the best I can. — Elvis Presley

Those movies sure got me into a rut. — Elvis Presley

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

When I'm doing interviews, I'm doing interviews, and when I am writing, I'm writing. I sit there with a musician and I write. It's the same process since I started writing in my twenties. I like to come in and leave with a finished song. — Lisa Marie Presley

Absolutely. I - you know, he was so that much a part of my life that, you know, Elvis, you know, once - once you bonded with him, I mean, there was no - there was no going back. He was just a great guy. — Priscilla Presley

I go for all the belles, except the wedding kind. — 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

If you bring a friend into your love affair, that's the end of your sweetheart that's the end of your friend, that's when your heartache begins. — Elvis Presley

I wore glasses, no music, and I won - I think it was - fifth place. I got a whipping the same day. My mother whipped me for something. Destroyed my ego completely. — Elvis Presley

Values are like fingerprints. Nobody's are the same, but you leave 'em all over everything you do — Elvis Presley

Love me tender, love me true, all my dreams fulfill. For my darling, I love you, and I always will. — Elvis Presley

Talent is being able to sell what you're feeling. — 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

A couple of days after the last time I saw him, I got a typically well-written postcard. He said that after he kissed me goodbye at LAX he was driving away and turned on the radio. Elvis was singing "It's Now or Never." In my personal religion, a faith cobbled together out of pop songs and books and movies, there is nothing closer to a sign from God than Elvis Presley telling you "tomorrow will be too late" at precisely the moment you drop off a girl you're not sure you want to drop off. Sitting on the stairs to my apartment, I read that card and wept. It said he heard the song and thought about running after me. But he didn't. And just as well
those mixed-faith marriages hardly ever work. An Elvis song coming out of the radio wasn't a sign from God to him, it was just another one of those corny pop tunes he could live without. — Sarah Vowell

When we kiss my heart's on fire, burning with a strange desire. And I know that every time I kiss you, that your heart's on fire, too. — Elvis Presley

Money honey, if you want to get along with me. — Elvis Presley

Where could I go but to the Lord? — 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

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

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

I don't do any vulgar movements. — Elvis Presley

I want to pave my own path artistically. — Lisa Marie Presley

I know I'm not going to sing like Aretha Franklin or Elvis Presley or any of those people. — George Thorogood

It's not how much you have that makes people look up to you, it's who you are. — Elvis Presley

When I get married, it'll be no secret. — Elvis Presley

If you lined up everyone I've ever dated, you wouldn't see any similarities. — Lisa Marie Presley

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

Sharing money is what gives it its value. — Elvis Presley

I don't want to be a rock star all my life.
I couldn't bear to end up like Elvis Presley in Las Vegas with all those housewives and old ladies coming in with their handbags — Mick Jagger

ELVIS & MARILYN:
The deader they get -
the more money they make. — Chocolate Waters

The walls have ears, ears that hear each little sound you make every time you stamp, throw a lamp. — Elvis Presley

Elvis Presley is all there is. There just ain't no more. Everything starts and ends with Elvis. He wrote the book. He is everything to do and not to do in the music business. — Bruce Springsteen

People don't realize what they had till it's gone. Like President Kennedy, there was no one like him, the Beatles, and my man Elvis Presley. I was the Elvis of boxing. — Muhammad Ali

I forgot to remember to forget. — Elvis Presley

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine. Ain't nowhere else in the world where you can go from driving a truck to cadillac overnight — Elvis Presley

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

When I write, it's purging for me. It's a therapeutic process. — Lisa Marie Presley

There would be no Rock and Roll without Ike Turner, James Brown, Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, Allen Toussaint, etc. Fake ghetto books and fake ghetto music. Elvis Presley, whom they idol, is merely a karaoke makeover of James Brown and Chuck Berry. — Ishmael Reed

It was very nerve-wracking for me. I had to be drunk and have a threesome. I'm not that guy. Bobby Cannavale is that guy. But it was Vegas and things got crazy, and it happened. We go to Vegas to try to sign Elvis Presley and things get crazy. My character [in Vinyl] is stoned. — Ray Romano

[Elvis] Presley was definitely a great inspiration to every guy who ever had a hard-on in the whole of the Western world, I should think. He shook everybody well and true, and we just kept on shakin'. But he started it. — Robert Plant

Life has taught me one big lesson, always keep the girlies guessing. — Elvis Presley

With a lot of hair and make-up then I'm possibly, remotely attractive. But it's rare, I don't think I'm ugly but I'm nothing particularly special. I'm not a yoga and health girl. I don't exercise that much and I eat crap and smoke and bite my nails. — Lisa Marie Presley

Singers come and go, but if you're a good actor, you can last a long time. — Elvis Presley

Every time Elvis sings, he makes a bargain with the devil -- just like Captain Ahab in MOBY DICK! — Greil Marcus

Too much TV hurts movies. — Elvis Presley

I have a tendency to kick it up. I like to rattle the cage. — Lisa Marie Presley

Elvis Presley, The Everly Brothers, and a lot of American artists were my greatest influences. — Gordon Waller

As a person, he was wonderful. He really was a great person. He was full of life. He had a great sense of humor. Very talented, of course, but very caring to his parents. There was a very endearing quality about Elvis. — Priscilla Presley

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

Your kisses lift me higher ... like the sweet song of a choir. You light my morning sky, with burning love. — Elvis Presley

When things go bad, don't go with them. — Elvis Presley

Happiness is knowin' you've done a good job, whether it's professional or for another person ... — Elvis Presley