Top 32 Presley O'bannon Quotes
#1. Elvis [Presley] had a stepstool, if you will, to success because he came from the dominant culture. They identified with him. Michael Jackson had to come further and go deeper into the pit of possibility of American democracy and of cultural expression.
Michael Eric Dyson
#2. 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
#4. Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.
Elvis Presley
#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.
Elvis Presley
#6. When I heard Elvis Presley, then I knew I had to do music. Music is my god, and is the only love that has never left me. It has always been there and is my best friend.
Ville Valo
#7. I dropped out of school in the 11th grade because there was no purpose in it for me. I'm not proud of this, and I'm not trying to promote it.
Lisa Marie Presley
#9. I want to entertain people. That's my whole life. To my last breath.
Elvis Presley
#10. And if there's any hope for America, it lies in a revolution, and if there's any hope for a revolution in America, it lies in getting Elvis Presley to become Che Guevara.
Phil Ochs
#11. The fact is Jerry Weintraub, the handsome, bearish movie producer, the man with the long career, who worked with Arthur Godfrey and Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra and George Clooney, is a great storyteller - he's this as much as he's anything else. He takes time telling stories, too.
Rich Cohen
#12. Elvis Presley had nothing to do with excellence, just myth.
Marlon Brando
#13. When I was twelve, the biggest name in Rock and Roll was Elvis Presley. I bought an EP, "King Creole". I hid it in the basement, but my mother found it.
Klaus Nomi
#14. Describe Elvis Presley? He was the greatest who ever was, is or ever will be.
Chuck Berry
#15. Talent is being able to sell what you're feeling.
Elvis Presley
#16. Music and fashion have had a kind of incestuous relationship since the Fifties. It started with people like Elvis Presley and pop icons like James Dean. Then it exploded in the MTV days. Now, with the Internet, it's instantaneous.
John Varvatos
#17. Two thousand years from now they'll still be hearing about Elvis Presley.
Wolfman Jack
#19. You only pass through this life once, you don't come back for an encore.
Elvis Presley
#20. Don't leave my embrace for here in my arms is your place.
Elvis Presley
#21. I get tired of playing a guy who gets into a fight, then starts singing to the guy he's just beat up.
Elvis Presley
#22. 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
#23. I've tried to lead a straight, clean life, not set any kind of a bad example.
Elvis Presley
#27. I've loved music always, and my music fire was lit by Elvis Presley, really, and all that was happening back then.
David Lynch
#28. I did go through a Goth thing, but that was a long time ago. I just like artists that shake it up, that piss people off or make people think or rattle the cage somehow.
Lisa Marie Presley
#29. I don't consider myself no attractive man. People like Tom Jones and Elvis Presley - I'm not nothing like that.
Muhammad Ali
#30. Once upon a time, there was a generation of parents who were certain that Elvis Presley's unashamed hip-swivellingvwas most certainly the end of society.
Charlie Caruso
#31. My fans want my shirt. They can have my shirt. They put it on my back.
Elvis Presley
#32. 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
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