Elvis Presley Quotes

Where could I go but to the Lord?

Man, I was tame compared to what they do now. Are you kidding? I didn't do anything but just jiggle.

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

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

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

We're the perfect combination. Colonel's an old carny, and me, I'm off the wall.

I get tired of singing to the guys I beat up in motion pictures.

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

A little less conversation, a little more ACTION.

We're trapped in a world that's troubled with pain. As long as a man has the strength to dream, he can redeem his soul and fly.

I think most people have a natural instinct to rebel.

I figure all any kid needs is hope and the feeling he or she belongs.

Take care of the fans and they will sure as hell take care of you.

If one can't give what they have and share then they will always be empty

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.

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

Like a river flows surely to the sea/Darling so it goes/Some things are meant to be/Take my hand, take my whole life too/For I can't help falling in love with you.

Everything is so dreamy when you are young. After you grow up it kind of becomes -- just real.

The child needs a helping hand or he'll grow up to be an angry young man some day.

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.

I forgot to remember to forget.

How can you lose something you never had, I tell myself when I'm feeling sad.

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

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

I was an overnight sensation.

When I started singing, I weighed 153 pounds. I weigh 184 now. I haven't gotten any taller, but I'm putting on a little more weight.

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

I didn't know that there were any radio stations in Nova Scotia.

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

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

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

Folks always look good in their coffins.

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

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

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.

The greatest voice of all time.

I wouldn't call girls a hobby. It's a pastime.

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

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

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

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.

Don't step on my blue suede shoes.

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.

So many kids and adults, too, have gotten just about one of the roughest breaks that can happen to a person. We can help these people.

Man, I was tame compared to what they do now.

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

The world is more alive at night; it's like God isn't looking.

Didja ever get one of them girls who just wants to watch the show?

I get sometimes; I get lonesome right in the middle of a crowd.

Her little sister will tell you she don't live here anymore.