Elvis Song Quotes

#1. 'If I Can Dream' is my all-time favorite Elvis song. It was a big record, but not as big as it could have been. It was one of those records where you'd think it sold 10 billion copies, but it didn't.

Darlene Love

#2. Everyone likes at least one Elvis song ... Me, I love them all. He was, is and will remain the ultimate rock star.

Robbie Williams

#3. I've always felt writing a song was a bit like going on location. That's true in an almost literal sense. Where you are seeps in somehow.

Elvis Costello

#4. When I first saw you with your smile so tender, my heart was captured, my soul surrendered.

Elvis Presley

#5. Gonna travel, gonna travel wild and free
I'm gonna pack my bags because this great big world is calling me

Elvis Presley

#6. In Moulin Rouge, Baz Luhrmann takes the most thrilling moments in a movie musical-the seconds before the actors are about to burst into song and dance, when every breath they take is heightened-and makes an entire picture of such pinnacles.

Elvis Mitchell

#7. 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

#8. Don't Cry Daddy is a pretty sad song. He got to the end of it and it was just real quiet and Elvis says, I'm gonna cut that someday for my daddy. And, by God, he did. He lived up to his word.

Mac Davis

#9. I get very frustrated by this term 'genre exercise.' I mean, what exactly is that? Genre is not really relevant when you are writing a song; hopefully you are doing it to explore something, to create something, and I don't agree that any of my albums are genre exercises.

Elvis Costello

#10. Elvis Costello's song writing is so peerless and individualistic. It's storytelling and it's deeply intelligent and clever.

Chip Esten

#11. The highlight of my career? That's easy, Elvis recording one of my songs.

Bob Dylan

#12. Can a mere song change a people's minds? I doubt that it is so. But a song can infiltrate your heart and the heart may change your mind.

Elvis Costello

#13. My songs are personal music, they're not communal. I wouldn't want people singing along with me. It would sound funny. I'm not playing campfire meetings. I don't remember anyone singing along with Elvis, Carl Perkins or Little Richard.

Bob Dylan

#14. Certain songs have been written years apart, but they have a natural continuity to my mind.

Elvis Costello

#15. You can fool some of the people part of the time in a rock and roll song, fifty million Elvis Presley fans can't be all wrong.

John Prine

#16. I met the Colonel when Elvis was recording some song I'd written for one of his movies. Elvis was just having fun with the gang and all the Memphis boys and Colonel Parker was sitting over here in like a theater seat.

Mac Davis

#17. It's what I do. I don't deserve any awards for this, it's just music. It's just writing songs. You sit down, you write a song, you record it. You tour and play the songs live, dress them up a bit differently, or dress them down.

Elvis Costello

#18. 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

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

Elvis Presley

#20. Morrissey writes wonderful song titles, but sadly he often forgets to write the song.

Elvis Costello

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

Elvis Presley

#22. I've never written a song in my life. It's all a big hoax.

Elvis Presley

#23. 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

#24. Commercial to the core, Elvis was the kind of singer dear to the heart of the music business. For him to sing a song was to sell asong. His G clef was a dollar sign.

Albert Goldman

#25. The album is a definite departure. I haven't written original material before, except for one song on my first album, but Elvis and I did six songs together on this one.

Diana Krall

#26. It's not crazy to want to have certain songs be developed harmonically and still want to make noise with the guitar. And you can have both.

Elvis Costello

#27. There are five things to write songs about: I'm leaving you. You're leaving me. I want you. You don't want me. I believe in something. Five subjects, and 12 notes. For all that, we musicians do pretty well.

Elvis Costello

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. I always used to love singing. The first song I knew all the words to was 'Girl of My Best Friend' by Elvis. My dad introduced me to his music, and when I got given a karaoke machine by my granddad, my cousin and I recorded a load of Elvis tracks. I wish I still had them so I could have a listen.

One Direction

#31. 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

#32. There was a chance for me to write one song for the section where Elvis sat in his black leather outfit and sang the old hits. At eight oclock the next morning I had written Memories.

Mac Davis

#33. 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