Top 54 Quotes About Best Elvis

#1. I find it to be the ultimate backhanded compliment when you are compared against yourself.

Elvis Costello

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#2. There's a girl in this dress,
there's always a girl in distress.

Elvis Costello

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#3. My only contact with the outside world was an RCA Victrola, and Elvis would sing, and then I'd dream about expensive cars.

Jimmy Buffett

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#4. Two thousand years from now they'll still be hearing about Elvis Presley.

Wolfman Jack

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#5. Iconic artists are never straight ahead. Michael Jackson loved Elvis and Burt Bacharach, and uniquely blended both of them into what he did.

Pharrell Williams

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#6. I made up my mind that I was going to be just like Elvis. It never occurred to me that Elvis was a man. I just wanted to be him. He had a huge impact on me, right down to that black leather jumpsuit he wore on the '68 Comeback Special.

Suzi Quatro

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#7. 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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#8. I could not have done anymore, I had pushed myself to a limit that I had never touched before and that's definitely going to change you - than going out and doing what you do in practice every day.

Elvis Stojko

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#9. My fans want my shirt. They can have my shirt. They put it on my back.

Elvis Presley

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#10. The British invasion was the most important event of my life. I was in New Jersey and the night I saw the Beatles changed everything. I had seen Elvis before and he had done nothing for me, but these guys were in a band.

Steven Van Zandt

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#11. 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

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#12. Elvis was just like a big old kid. It was like he never got past 19, I don't think, in a lotta ways.

Mac Davis

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#13. I don't consider myself no attractive man. People like Tom Jones and Elvis Presley - I'm not nothing like that.

Muhammad Ali

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#14. One man's Mona Lisa is another man's velvet Elvis.

C.M. Bacon

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#15. I think to just single out a highlight of Elvis's career is pretty much impossible. As far as being a fan of his, a lifetime fan, there were just too many highlights.

Jackie DeShannon

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#16. I could eat bloody Elvis - if you put enough vinegar on him.

Anthony Bourdain

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#17. I've loved music always, and my music fire was lit by Elvis Presley, really, and all that was happening back then.

David Lynch

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#18. And I'm up while the dawn is breaking, even though my heart is aching. I should be drinking a toast to absent friends instead of these comedians.

Elvis Costello

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#19. You need a platform upon which to release an orchestral record, otherwise it's just going to be an obscurity.

Elvis Costello

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#20. My favorite artists have always been Elvis and The Beatles and they still are!

Johnny Ramone

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#21. Clowntime is over Time to take cover While others just talk and talk Somebody's watching where the others don't walk.

Elvis Costello

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#22. When I first heard Elvis perform "Bridge Over Trouble Water" it was unbelivable,and I thought to myself, how the hell can I compete with that?

Paul Simon

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#23. It was a real party of swells.

Elvis Costello

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#24. I'm a man with a mission in two or three editions And I'm giving you a longing look Everyday, everyday, everyday I write the book.

Elvis Costello

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#25. NUTHIN' more fun than Rock n' Roll!

Elvis Presley

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#26. My family calls me Declan. But most people call me E.C. I think it comes from my dad. It's an Irish convention. You usually call the first child by the initials.

Elvis Costello

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#27. I've tried to lead a straight, clean life, not set any kind of a bad example.

Elvis Presley

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#28. 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

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#29. 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

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#30. And Sandy Martindale ... dated Elvis before the rhinestone jumpsuits and the drugs, when he was sharp and cool and jagged, like porcelain that has been hurled against a wall ...

Rick Bragg

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#31. Don't leave my embrace for here in my arms is your place.

Elvis Presley

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#32. You only pass through this life once, you don't come back for an encore.

Elvis Presley

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#33. Elvis, you're still King.

Chubby Checker

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#34. 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

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#35. It's a breath you took too late.
It's a death that's worse than fate.

Elvis Costello

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#36. 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

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#37. Talent is being able to sell what you're feeling.

Elvis Presley

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#38. I met Elvis first in Las Vegas. I think I was appearing with Tom Jones and he came backstage to say hello to Tom or we went to his dressing room to say hello.

Norm Crosby

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#39. Stalking the Angel
[Joe]"I could off anybody in this place five times over."
[Elvis]"Could you off someone and get away with you here?"
[Joe]Head shake. "I'm too good even for me.

Robert Crais

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#40. I mean it's like trying to decide between James Dean and Elvis. Seriously, who could make that choice?

Andrea Portes

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#41. I'm sure that Elvis was happy for me. I think he was the kind of guy that enjoyed other people's success, especially if he had something to do with it.

Mac Davis

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#42. Describe Elvis Presley? He was the greatest who ever was, is or ever will be.

Chuck Berry

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#43. The best came from my martial arts teacher, who also taught Elvis. He said, 'Your ego will get you killed.'

William Sanderson

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#44. 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

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#45. This imitation Elvis may not be the king, but baby I'm the next best thing.

Jimmy Buffett

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#46. 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

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#47. CHILD: "Why does carrot cake have the best icing?" MOTHER: "Because it needs the best icing." Quantum Nonlocality and the Death of Elvis Presley You may remember

B.J. Novak

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#48. It's human nature to gripe, but I'm going ahead and doing the best I can.

Elvis Presley

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#49. The Best of Elvis Presley, Doris Day, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bill Hailey and the Comets, Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee, Frankie Laine all topped the charts in the '50s. Load a playlist of rock n' roll royalty. You're spoilt for choice.

Sara Sheridan

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#50. Elvis Presley was the first and the best. He is my favorite of all time.

William J. Clinton

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#51. Larry Geller's Leaves of Elvis' Garden is by far the best book I have ever read about Elvis. It is emotional, revealing and spiritual, and offers the most amazing insight into the king. I highly recommend this dynamic book.

Uri Geller

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#52. A lot has been written and said about why he was so great, but I think the best way to appreciate his greatness is just to go back and play some of the old records. Time has a way of being very unkind to old records, but Elvis' keep getting better and better.

Huey Lewis

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#53. When I saw Elvis on television, I just fell in love with him completely. As a singer, I want to be able to relate to an audience like this man does. Of course, nobody can - he was the best there ever was.

Faith Hill

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#54. I've had the boyhood thing of being Elvis. Now I want to be with my best friend and my best friend is my wife. Who could ask for anything more?

John Lennon

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