Top 100 Elvis Presley Quotes
#1. 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.
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#3. I've tried to lead a straight, clean life, not set any kind of a bad example.
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#4. Don't leave my embrace for here in my arms is your place.
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#5. 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.
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#6. Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.
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#8. The only kind of trouble I've ever been in is when I was stealing eggs when I was little. I think I know right from wrong.
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#9. You've got to follow that dream, wherever that dream may lead.
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#10. 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.
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#11. 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.
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#13. Didja ever get one of them girls who just wants to watch the show?
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#14. The first car I bought was the most beautiful car I've ever seen. It was secondhand, but I parked it outside of my hotel the day I got it. I sat up all night, just lookin' at it.
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#16. 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.
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#17. How can you lose something you never had, I tell myself when I'm feeling sad.
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#18. 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.
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#19. Since my baby left me, I've found a new place to dwell, down at the end of Lonely Street at Heartbreak Hotel.
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#20. I look at you and wham, I'm head over heals. I guess that love is like a banana peel.
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#21. You look like an angel, walk like an angel, talk like an angel. But I got wise, you're the devil in disguise.
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#22. When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.
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#24. 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.
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#25. [It's] funny how things have a way of looking so much brighter in the daytime.
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#26. I'm trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It's so easy to get turned.
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#27. 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.
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#28. I'm not trying to be sexy. It's just my way of expressing myself when I move around.
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#29. She touched my hand what a chill I got, her lips are like a volcano that's hot.
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#30. 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.
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#32. I just know that, right now, ... the biggest record selling business there is is rock and roll.
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#34. I get sometimes; I get lonesome right in the middle of a crowd.
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#36. Those people in New York are not gonna change me none.
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#37. More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me.
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#38. I've never written a song in my life. It's all a big hoax.
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#39. 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.
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#40. The walls have ears, better think before you throw that shoe.
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#42. 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.
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#43. The only thing worse than watching a bad movie is being in one.
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#44. There are too many people that depend on me. I'm too obligated. I'm in too far to get out.
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#45. Nine and nine makes fourteen, four and four makes nine. The clock is striking thirteen, I think I've lost my mind.
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#46. I get tired of singing to the guys I beat up in motion pictures.
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#47. 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.
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#49. Until we meet again, may God bless you as he has blessed me.
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#50. Do what's right for you, so long as it don't hurt no one.
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#51. My philosophy of life is simple: I need someone to love, something to wait and do something.
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#52. I think most people have a natural instinct to rebel.
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#53. Since I was two years old, all I knew was gospel music. That music became such a part of my life it was as natural as dancing. A way to escape from the problems. And my way of release.
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#54. Since the beginning, it was just the same. The only difference, the crowds are bigger now.
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#55. Then came Act II, you seemed to change and acted strange, and why I'll never know.
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#56. 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
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#57. I'm strictly for Stevenson. I don't dig the intellectual bit, but I'm telling you, man, he knows the most.
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#58. The sun's down and the moon's pretty - it's time to ramble.
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#59. Once I catch you and the kissing starts, a team of wild horses couldn't tear us apart.
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#60. If you let your head get too big, it'll break your neck.
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#61. I've come too far, and I don't know how to get back.
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#62. I learned how important it is to entertain people and give them a reason to come and watch you play.
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#63. Gonna travel, gonna travel wild and free
I'm gonna pack my bags because this great big world is calling me
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#65. A hard headed woman, a soft hearted man, been the cause of trouble ever since the world began.
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#66. I am not the King. Jesus Christ is the King. I'm just an entertainer.
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#67. 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.
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#68. 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.
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#69. On a cold and gray Chicago morning another little baby child is born in the ghetto, and his Mama cries.
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#70. Do the Clam, do the Clam, grab your barefoot baby by the hand.
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#72. Everybody comes from the same source. If you hate another human being, you're hating part of yourself.
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#73. I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were.
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#74. I'd just like to be treated like a regular customer.
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#75. I'd rather go on hearing your lies, than to go on living without you.
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#76. 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.
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#77. That's why I hate to get started in these jam sessions. I'm always the last one to leave.
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#78. Animals don't hate, and we're supposed to be better than them.
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#79. It's not how much you have that makes people look up to you, it's who you are.
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#80. Don't tell me baby you gotta go, I got the hifi high and the lights down low.
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#81. I've been getting some bad publicity - but you got to expect that.
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#82. Hey buddy, don't you be no square, if you can't find a partner use a wooden chair.
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#83. Take care of the fans and they will sure as hell take care of you.
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#84. From the time I was a kid, I always knew something was going to happen to me. Didn't know exactly what.
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#85. Number 47 said to number 3, you're the cutest jailbird I ever did see.
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#86. 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.
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#87. Everything is so dreamy when you are young. After you grow up it kind of becomes
just real.
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#88. I wiggle my shoulders, I shake my legs, I walk up and down the stage, I hop around on one foot. But I never bump and grind. Why, that's vulgar. I'd never do anything vulgar before an audience. My mother would never allow it.
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#89. When we're dancing it almost feels the same, I've got to stop myself from whispering your name.
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#90. Her little sister will tell you she don't live here anymore.
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#91. A little less fight and a little more spark, close your mouth and open your heart.
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#92. 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.
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#93. What's the good of reaching 90, if you waste 89?
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#94. In public, I like real conservative clothes, something that's not too flashy. But onstage, I like 'em as flashy as you can get 'em.
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#95. 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.
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#96. Later on they send me to Hollywood. To make movies. It was all new to me. I was only 21 years old.
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#97. 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.
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#98. I was training to be an electrician. I suppose I got wired the wrong way round somewhere along the line.
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#100. Music should be something that makes you gotta move, inside or outside.
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