Top 100 Presley's Quotes
#1. Presley's what I go by, why don't you change the station.
Tom Waits
#2. The man on the radio says Elvis Presley's died. We drove to Memphis, the sky was hard and black.
Bruce Springsteen
#3. Elvis Presley's music never meant anything to me. Mambo was the music I loved - it spoke to me.
Arne Glimcher
#4. When Michael Jackson, a poor black boy who grew up to be a rich, white woman, married Elvis Presley's daughter the Scientologist. Makes you proud to be an American, dudn't it?
Molly Ivins
#5. Being Elvis Presley's daughter is a whole lot of pressure. It's been a constant burden in my life.
Lisa Marie Presley
#6. 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
#7. The sun's down and the moon's pretty - it's time to ramble.
Elvis Presley
#8. I don't feel I'll live a long life. That's why I have to get what I can from every day.
Elvis Presley
#9. Kindness is not something you are born with; it's a way in which you choose to be.
Lisa Kaye Presley
#10. I like helping children. I have a big thing with children. You can correspond with the child, send something to them as a gift. You know it's actually getting there and you are doing something to help.
Lisa Marie Presley
#11. I lived somebody else's life. It was never about me, it was really about him on every level.
Priscilla Presley
#12. The man who can sing when he hasn't got a thing, he's the king of the whole wide world.
Elvis Presley
#13. Live each day, as if it we're your last. It's written in the stars, your destiny is cast.
Elvis Presley
#14. 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.
Elvis Presley
#15. Between all four children and my husband, I don't get to do much. But when I am in England, I cook and I garden, and it's much more calming and relaxed.
Lisa Marie Presley
#16. You have so much to share, you have so much to tell, you have so much you want to expose, so much that's inside that you've learned from that life period. There are really very few people I can share that with.
Priscilla Presley
#17. I'm left, you're right, and she's gone. You're right, and I'm left all alone.
Elvis Presley
#18. The world is more alive at night; it's like God isn't looking.
Elvis Presley
#19. 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
#20. We're the perfect combination. Colonel's an old carny, and me, I'm off the wall.
Elvis Presley
#21. There's been a big void out there, in terms of where I've been and what I am currently working on, I'd like to fill that void now and share my exciting plans for the future.
Priscilla Presley
#22. Before we get started, let's all say 'Happy Birthday' to Elvis Presley today.
Michele Bachmann
#23. Do what's right for you, so long as it don't hurt no one.
Elvis Presley
#24. Apparently, organizers kept Elvis Presley from joining his school's glee club. They said his voice would ruin their sound.
Ken Robinson
#25. On my US tour maybe three out of 30 shows there was an Elvis impersonator in the crowd but that's it. I usually get younger fans, and those that come that are of an older generation end up walking out because it's too loud.
Lisa Marie Presley
#26. Something happens to people around fame and power and money - it can bring out the worst and best in people; it's a monster you have to tame.
Lisa Marie Presley
#27. I just look at it, as it's something that I had to do. I had this vision that really, Graceland is suited for a king and it is his castle. And people really should see it, as he loved it.
Priscilla Presley
#28. I reckon it's true what they say that good begets good and bad begets bad. The evil men do lives on after them, but what good they done gets buried with their bones.
Lisa Kaye Presley
#29. You don't like hot rod racing or driving late at night, you just want to park where it's nice and dark.
Elvis Presley
#30. Happiness is knowin' you've done a good job, whether it's professional or for another person ...
Elvis Presley
#31. Somebody does somethin' stupid, that's human. They don't stop when they see it's wrong, that's a fool.
Elvis Presley
#32. Funky like your grandpa's drawers, don't test me
We in like that, you're dead like Presley
Q-Tip
#33. I like visual images and there are certainly other bands that have strong visual images going all the way back to Elvis Presley, but it's kind of like that's never really been my bag. Probably because I'm too shy.
Frank Black
#35. When I'm doing interviews, I'm doing interviews, and when I am writing, I'm writing. I sit there with a musician and I write. It's the same process since I started writing in my twenties. I like to come in and leave with a finished song.
Lisa Marie Presley
#36. 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.
Elvis Presley
#37. 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.
Elvis Presley
#38. What's the good of reaching 90, if you waste 89?
Elvis Presley
#39. It was more that his career was going down again and he was tired of the songs. He was tired of the routine. And there was a point where he just kind of gave up. He couldn't face being 40. And he resorted to stimulants. There's a dark side there, a really dark side.
Priscilla Presley
#40. If I'm alone too long I think too much, and I'm not interested in doing that. That won't lead anywhere good, I'm sure. If I'm busy I tend to stay out of trouble. An idle mind is the devil's playground.
Lisa Marie Presley
#41. 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.
Elvis Presley
#42. All I want is to know the truth, to know and experience God. I'm a searcher, that's what I'm all about.
Elvis Presley
#45. It's not how much you have that makes people look up to you, it's who you are.
Elvis Presley
#46. I'm trying to have my own thing, and I don't know if it's even possible. I didn't realize so many people actually think I'm trying to be like my dad. I read comments like 'She's no Elvis.' I'm not trying to be. I never set out to be.
Lisa Marie Presley
#47. Many of the most accomplished people of our era were considered by experts to have no future. Jackson Pollock, Marcel Proust, Elvis Presley, Ray Charles, Lucille Ball, and Charles Darwin were all thought to have little potential for their chosen fields.
Carol S. Dweck
#48. 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
#49. Michael's the ultimate entertainer. After Michael Jackson, it's Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, and Bruce Lee.
Tracy Morgan
#50. That's why I hate to get started in these jam sessions. I'm always the last one to leave.
Elvis Presley
#51. I think people think I'm harder and more arrogant and cocky than I am - because I know how to put on a front, but it's nothing like who I am inside.
Lisa Marie Presley
#52. 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.
Elvis Presley
#53. It's human nature to gripe, but I'm going ahead and doing the best I can.
Elvis Presley
#54. Blacko-oxy-tonic phosphate, it's the latest scoop. But that's alright girls, you can call it goop.
Elvis Presley
#55. I don't deal well with admiration if it's for something I haven't done. Other than exist.
Lisa Marie Presley
#56. I like Brando's acting ... and James Dean ... and Richard Widmark. Quite a few of 'em I like.
Elvis Presley
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. Inner beauty should be the most important part of improving one's self.
Priscilla Presley
#61. God's the final judge for Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash too. That's solely in the hands of God.
Johnny Cash
#62. 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
#63. It's pretty amazing to me that my first hit record was an Elvis Presley record.
Mac Davis
#64. 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
#65. You know, you know, obviously, if my daughter's happy, you know, then I don't have any problem.
Priscilla Presley
#66. I think I have something tonight that's not quite correct for evening wear. Blue suede shoes.
Elvis Presley
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. Tomorrow will be too late, it's now or never ...
Elvis Presley
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. I want to entertain people. That's my whole life. To my last breath.
Elvis Presley
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. 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
#78. I love singing some Johnny Cash, which is interesting because it's in a guy's key; I love singing Elvis Presley.
Samantha Barks
#79. I don't think there's ever been someone with as much presence as Elvis Presley, I mean if he walked into a room I think everyone would be looking at only him. Even when he was dying and through all that when you looked at him it seemed all put together. It fascinates me.
Eddie Murphy
#80. Elvis Presley is still showing up in 7-11 stores across the country, even though he's been dead for years, so I figure music just might be the most important thing there is.
Sherman Alexie
#81. The money thing is, the sort of Elvis Presley thing of buying you mother car is great, that's very good. My mother has learned how to spend money.
Bill Murray
#82. I'll be a fool or a wiseman, my darling, you hold the key. Anyway you want me, that's how I will be.
Elvis Presley
#83. Ma'am, I'm not tryin' to be sexy. Ah didn't have any clear idea of trying to sell sex. It's just my way of expressin' how I feel when I move around. It's all leg movement. I don't do nothin' with my body.
Elvis Presley
#84. Values are like fingerprints. Nobody's are the same, but you leave 'em all over everything you do
Elvis Presley
#85. 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
#86. I've never written a song in my life. It's all a big hoax.
Elvis Presley
#87. That's why I've kept you out of reach. It's like putting something you love away from everything so its beauty won't be tarnished. I want to be with you more, and them less. I want my life to change.
Lucy De Barbin
#88. When you live life and you are living the experience, you tend not to appreciate them as you are living them. It's only when you look back and realize how special they were.
Priscilla Presley
#89. Don't criticize what you don't understand, son. You never walked in that man's shoes.
Elvis Presley
#90. It's hard for me to be happy because I'm always worried about something going awry or what could happen to screw it up. It's hard for me to sit and look around, going, 'Ah, I'm really happy.' I'm not that kind of person.
Lisa Marie Presley
#91. 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
#92. It's not that, you know, when a relationship doesn't work and there are issues, you have to somehow work it out if there are children involved.
Priscilla Presley
#93. I'm completely absorbed by Peter Guralnick's definitive, two-part biography of Elvis Presley: 'Last Train To Memphis' and 'Careless Love.' Meticulously researched, this is a compelling mix of history, myth-busting, and, of course, some timeless music.
Mark Billingham
#94. She touched my hand what a chill I got, her lips are like a volcano that's hot.
Elvis Presley
#95. I'm not trying to be sexy. It's just my way of expressing myself when I move around.
Elvis Presley
#96. 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
#97. I grew up in the South with my father; blues and country, that's always been my core. But I had it in me not to do what was expected. I wanted to find my own footing.
Lisa Marie Presley
#98. [It's] funny how things have a way of looking so much brighter in the daytime.
Elvis Presley
#99. I'm so lucky to be in the position to give. It's really a gift to give.
Elvis Presley
#100. 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.
Elvis Presley
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