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Elvis Presley
American
Musician
About the author
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.
Elvis Presley,
American
Musician
#Right
#Life
#Mother
#Growing up
I think I have something tonight that's not quite correct for evening wear. Blue suede shoes.
Elvis Presley,
American
Musician
#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,
American
Musician
#Songs
#Hollywood
#Movies
#Production
#Direction
I never expected to be anybody important.
Elvis Presley,
American
Musician
I miss my singing career very much.
Elvis Presley,
American
Musician
#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,
American
Musician
#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,
American
Musician
#World
#Trying
I was an overnight sensation.
Elvis Presley,
American
Musician
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,
American
Musician
#Books
#Movies
#Dream
When I got outta High School I was driving a truck. I was just a poor boy from Memphis, Memphis.
Elvis Presley,
American
Musician
#Poor
#School
#Driving
When I get married, it'll be no secret.
Elvis Presley,
American
Musician
Whatever I will become will be what God has chosen for me.
Elvis Presley,
American
Musician
#God
#Will
Until we meet again, may God bless you as he has blessed me.
Elvis Presley,
American
Musician
#God
#May
Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.
Elvis Presley,
American
Musician
#Time
#Truth
#Sun
More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me.
Elvis Presley,
American
Musician
#Want
#Right
#Home
Too much TV hurts movies.
Elvis Presley,
American
Musician
#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,
American
Musician
#Hollywood
#Years
#Old
#Movies
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,
American
Musician
#Want
#Home
It's human nature to gripe, but I'm going ahead and doing the best I can.
Elvis Presley,
American
Musician
#Nature
#Human nature
I've tried to lead a straight, clean life, not set any kind of a bad example.
Elvis Presley,
American
Musician
#Life
#Example
I've never written a song in my life. It's all a big hoax.
Elvis Presley,
American
Musician
#Life
#Song
I've been getting some bad publicity - but you got to expect that.
Elvis Presley,
American
Musician
#Publicity
I'm so nervous. I've always been nervous, ever since I was a kid.
Elvis Presley,
American
Musician
I'm strictly for Stevenson. I don't dig the intellectual bit, but I'm telling you, man, he knows the most.
Elvis Presley,
American
Musician
#Man
I was training to be an electrician. I suppose I got wired the wrong way round somewhere along the line.
Elvis Presley,
American
Musician
#Wrong
#Training
I'm not trying to be sexy. It's just my way of expressing myself when I move around.
Elvis Presley,
American
Musician
#Trying
I'm no hillbilly singer.
Elvis Presley,
American
Musician
I'll stay in Memphis.
Elvis Presley,
American
Musician
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,
American
Musician
#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,
American
Musician
#Right
#Smoking
I'd just like to be treated like a regular customer.
Elvis Presley,
American
Musician
#Customer
The Lord can give, and the Lord can take away. I might be herding sheep next year.
Elvis Presley,
American
Musician
#Sheep
I don't do any vulgar movements.
Elvis Presley,
American
Musician
There are too many people that depend on me. I'm too obligated. I'm in too far to get out.
Elvis Presley,
American
Musician
#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,
American
Musician
#Now
#Money
#Singing
#Ballads
I like entertaining people. I really miss it.
Elvis Presley,
American
Musician
#People
I learned how important it is to entertain people and give them a reason to come and watch you play.
Elvis Presley,
American
Musician
#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,
American
Musician
#Heart
#Cause
I hope I didn't bore you too much with my life story.
Elvis Presley,
American
Musician
#Life
#Hope
I have no use for bodyguards, but I have very specific use for two highly trained certified public accountants.
Elvis Presley,
American
Musician
#Public
I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.
Elvis Presley,
American
Musician
#Music
#Business
Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.
Elvis Presley,
American
Musician
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
Elvis Presley,
American
Musician
#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,
American
Musician
#Help
#Music
I did the Ed Sullivan show four times. I did the Steve Allen show. I did the Jackie Gleason show.
Elvis Presley,
American
Musician
From the time I was a kid, I always knew something was going to happen to me. Didn't know exactly what.
Elvis Presley,
American
Musician
#Time
Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.
Elvis Presley,
American
Musician
#Time
#Old
#Grave
Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.
Elvis Presley,
American
Musician
#Dream
#Ambition
My movements, ma'am, are all leg movements. I don't do nothing with my body.
Elvis Presley,
American
Musician
#Nothing
#Body
After a hard day of basic training, you could eat a rattlesnake.
Elvis Presley,
American
Musician
#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,
American
Musician
#Will
#Man
#Prosperity
#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.
Elvis Presley,
American
Musician
#Business
#Favorite
#Electricity
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,
American
Musician
#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,
American
Musician
#Now
#Years
#Man
#Singing
Since the beginning, it was just the same. The only difference, the crowds are bigger now.
Elvis Presley,
American
Musician
#Now
#Difference
#Beginning
#Crowds
That's why I hate to get started in these jam sessions. I'm always the last one to leave.
Elvis Presley,
American
Musician
#Hate
The army teaches boys to think like men.
Elvis Presley,
American
Musician
#Men
#Boys
#Army
Those movies sure got me into a rut.
Elvis Presley,
American
Musician
#Movies
They put me on television. And the whole thing broke loose. It was wild, I tell ya for sure.
Elvis Presley,
American
Musician
#Television
Man, I really like Vegas.
Elvis Presley,
American
Musician
#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,
American
Musician
#First
#Singing
#Fact
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,
American
Musician
#Thought
#First
#Movies
#Service
#Army
Those people in New York are not gonna change me none.
Elvis Presley,
American
Musician
#People
#Change
People ask me where I got my singing style. I didn't copy my style from anybody.
Elvis Presley,
American
Musician
#People
#Style
#Singing
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,
American
Musician
#Being