Top 100 Presley Quotes
#1. Two thousand years from now they'll still be hearing about Elvis Presley.
Wolfman Jack
#2. 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
#3. My fans want my shirt. They can have my shirt. They put it on my back.
Elvis Presley
#4. 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
#5. I don't consider myself no attractive man. People like Tom Jones and Elvis Presley - I'm not nothing like that.
Muhammad Ali
#6. 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
#7. I've loved music always, and my music fire was lit by Elvis Presley, really, and all that was happening back then.
David Lynch
#11. I've tried to lead a straight, clean life, not set any kind of a bad example.
Elvis Presley
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. Don't leave my embrace for here in my arms is your place.
Elvis Presley
#15. You only pass through this life once, you don't come back for an encore.
Elvis Presley
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. Talent is being able to sell what you're feeling.
Elvis Presley
#20. Describe Elvis Presley? He was the greatest who ever was, is or ever will be.
Chuck Berry
#21. 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
#22. Elvis Presley had nothing to do with excellence, just myth.
Marlon Brando
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. I want to entertain people. That's my whole life. To my last breath.
Elvis Presley
#26. I think Elvis Presley will never be solved
Nick Tosches
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.
Elvis Presley
#32. 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.
Elvis Presley
#33. I think I've failed every test I've ever taken. If there was a failure I would have been it.
Lisa Marie Presley
#34. You've got to follow that dream, wherever that dream may lead.
Elvis Presley
#35. 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
#36. Tomorrow will be too late, it's now or never ...
Elvis Presley
#37. When I got outta High School I was driving a truck. I was just a poor boy from Memphis, Memphis.
Elvis Presley
#39. I watched Elvis Presley become - I listened to Elvis Presley. I watched Chuck Berry become. I listened to Little Richard. I heard that music, and it was part of my upbringing.
Al Jarreau
#40. The Spanish PM rang me to say: 'I have the support of only 4 per cent of the people.' I said, 'Crikey, that's even less than think Elvis Presley is still alive.'
Tony Blair
#41. To see someone 70 years old with dyed black hair, you're like, 'Hmmm, I dunno. Is that a wrinkled teenager? What is that?' So at some point, I'm going to have to stop doing this. It's gonna look ridiculous. I don't wanna look like Elvis Presley at 60 years old.
Peter Steele
#42. 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.
Elvis Presley
#43. I'm just not interested in selling out to get on the charts and make people happy.
Lisa Marie Presley
#44. Most performers reinvent themselves. Madonna, Michael Jackson, P. Diddy. They reinvent themselves into different kinds of images. Elvis [Presley] was always himself, an original, and he never tried to be anything but that.
Pat Boone
#46. Didja ever get one of them girls who just wants to watch the show?
Elvis Presley
#47. 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.
Elvis Presley
#48. Blacko-oxy-tonic phosphate, it's the latest scoop. But that's alright girls, you can call it goop.
Elvis Presley
#49. As the lad himself might say, cut my legs off and call me Shorty! Elvis Presley can act ... Acting is his assignment in this shrewdly upholstered showcase, and he does it.
Howard Thompson
#51. I wanted to say to Elvis Presley and the country that this is a real decent, fine boy, and wherever you go, Elvis, we want to say we've never had a pleasanter experience on our show with a big name than we've had with you.
Ed Sullivan
#52. I wouldn't have Elvis Presley on my show at any time.
Ed Sullivan
#53. I never not wanted to be a singer. Since I was 3, I knew this was what I wanted to do. Well, I can't say I wanted to do it, but I fantasized and thought about it all the time. I never thought it would actually happen.
Lisa Marie Presley
#54. I don't want to be a tiger, tigers play too rough. I don't want to be a lion, cause lions ain't the kind you love up.
Elvis Presley
#55. There is a shyness about me, and I really need to get out more.
Priscilla Presley
#57. To judge a man by his weakest link or deed is like judging the power of the ocean by one wave.
Elvis Presley
#59. You know, you know, obviously, if my daughter's happy, you know, then I don't have any problem.
Priscilla Presley
#60. 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
#61. It's pretty amazing to me that my first hit record was an Elvis Presley record.
Mac Davis
#62. How can you lose something you never had, I tell myself when I'm feeling sad.
Elvis Presley
#63. I have a lot of memories, but I don't go into capitalizing on that. Something's got to be my own. I'm not doing the record to sit here and broadcast my memories of my father.
Lisa Marie Presley
#64. I was like Elvis "The Pelvis" Presley on Ed Sullivan, I tells ya, punished for the crime of being sexy. (him on the telly , me in a dingy alley ... any analogy will break down under scrutiny.)
Russell Brand
#65. No one likes to be typecast or stereotyped, especially actors. But who would know Esther Williams without a swimming pool, Bela Lugosi without a cape, or Elvis Presley without his guitar. Would we even care?
Susan Marg
#66. God's the final judge for Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash too. That's solely in the hands of God.
Johnny Cash
#67. Little sister, don't you do what your big sister done.
Elvis Presley
#68. You weren't supposed to hear Elvis Presley. You weren't supposed to hear Jerry Lee Lewis. You weren't supposed to hear Robert Johnson. You weren't supposed to hear Hank Williams. And they told the story of the secret America.
Bruce Springsteen
#69. Being considered beautiful at a young age sends confusing signals. You think people only like you because of your beauty.
Priscilla Presley
#70. What drove us crazy wasn't necessarily the sexual freedom his critic claimed he was unleashing, but freedom, period. Freedom to be yourself, to express yourself, to wear what you wanted to wear, to look the way you wanted to look, to have your own style, your own talk.
Larry Geller, Joel Spector, Patricia Romanowski
#71. Inner beauty should be the most important part of improving one's self.
Priscilla Presley
#72. I do like to write nasty songs. It's a useful weapon to have, and it's cathartic as well, because I create art out of anger, something positive out of something negative.
Lisa Marie Presley
#73. I'm evil, my middle name is misery. Well, I'm evil, so don't mess around with me.
Elvis Presley
#74. Elvis Presley, The Everly Brothers, and a lot of American artists were my greatest influences.
Gordon Waller
#75. You have to remember that when I met Elvis, you know, it wasn't the fanfare that it is today or even when he was here in the states and I was in Germany growing up.
Priscilla Presley
#76. When you get down to the nitty gritty, isn't it a pity that in this big city not one little bitty man will admit that he could have been a little wrong.
Elvis Presley
#77. 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
#78. I saw a Velveeta commercial, and it was playing, I think, 'Burning Love.' [Jackson] had approved it-that's something we can't control. He can do whatever he wants with the songs he owns to make money, and that got under my skin.
Lisa Marie Presley
#79. I really went back through a lot of the dark corridors of my life in this. I wanted people to know who I am based on my music, not on what they read in the tabloids.
Lisa Marie Presley
#80. 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
#81. To me, John Lennon and Elvis Presley were punks, because they made music that evoked those emotions in people.
Joey Ramone
#83. I look at you and wham, I'm head over heals. I guess that love is like a banana peel.
Elvis Presley
#84. If Elvis Presley had been a bowhunter, he'd probably be alive today.
Ted Nugent
#85. Some people tap their feet, some people snap their fingers, and some people sway back and forth. I just sorta do 'em all together, I guess.
Elvis Presley
#86. I don't want to be a rock star all my life.
I couldn't bear to end up like Elvis Presley in Las Vegas with all those housewives and old ladies coming in with their handbags
Mick Jagger
#87. I have no use for bodyguards, but I have very specific use for two highly trained certified public accountants.
Elvis Presley
#88. Every time Elvis sings, he makes a bargain with the devil -- just like Captain Ahab in MOBY DICK!
Greil Marcus
#89. You look like an angel, walk like an angel, talk like an angel. But I got wise, you're the devil in disguise.
Elvis Presley
#90. 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
#91. But we weren't a phenomenon like the Beatles or Elvis Presley or the Rolling Stones: We were only as good as our last hit. We lived on our music and couldn't slide on anything - and this show is that story.
Bob Gaudio
#92. With a lot of hair and make-up then I'm possibly, remotely attractive. But it's rare, I don't think I'm ugly but I'm nothing particularly special. I'm not a yoga and health girl. I don't exercise that much and I eat crap and smoke and bite my nails.
Lisa Marie Presley
#93. Each of us may be a diamond-in-the-rough, needing only a muse and a change in circumstance to go from humble caterpillar to majestic butterfly." - Peter Whitmer, Ph.D. ~from The Inner Elvis: A Psychological Biography of Elvis Aaron Presley
Peter Whitmer
#94. I like Brando's acting ... and James Dean ... and Richard Widmark. Quite a few of 'em I like.
Elvis Presley
#95. I've been chased through airports with a screaming baby because the photographers are ruthless, and they want the picture.
Lisa Marie Presley
#96. I was always writing music anyway. I just sort of fell into it. Writing for me is a therapeutic process.
Lisa Marie Presley
#97. A little less conversation, a little more ACTION.
Elvis Presley
#98. I don't deal well with admiration if it's for something I haven't done. Other than exist.
Lisa Marie Presley
#100. I think I have something tonight that's not quite correct for evening wear. Blue suede shoes.
Elvis Presley
