Top 100 Quotes About Elvis
#1. I find it to be the ultimate backhanded compliment when you are compared against yourself.
Elvis Costello
#2. There's a girl in this dress,
there's always a girl in distress.
Elvis Costello
#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
#4. Two thousand years from now they'll still be hearing about Elvis Presley.
Wolfman Jack
#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
#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
#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
#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
#9. My fans want my shirt. They can have my shirt. They put it on my back.
Elvis Presley
#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
#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
#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
#13. I don't consider myself no attractive man. People like Tom Jones and Elvis Presley - I'm not nothing like that.
Muhammad Ali
#14. One man's Mona Lisa is another man's velvet Elvis.
C.M. Bacon
#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
#16. I could eat bloody Elvis - if you put enough vinegar on him.
Anthony Bourdain
#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
#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
#19. You need a platform upon which to release an orchestral record, otherwise it's just going to be an obscurity.
Elvis Costello
#20. My favorite artists have always been Elvis and The Beatles and they still are!
Johnny Ramone
#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
#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
#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
#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
#27. I've tried to lead a straight, clean life, not set any kind of a bad example.
Elvis Presley
#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
#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
#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
#31. Don't leave my embrace for here in my arms is your place.
Elvis Presley
#32. You only pass through this life once, you don't come back for an encore.
Elvis Presley
#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
#35. It's a breath you took too late.
It's a death that's worse than fate.
Elvis Costello
#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
#37. Talent is being able to sell what you're feeling.
Elvis Presley
#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
#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
#40. I mean it's like trying to decide between James Dean and Elvis. Seriously, who could make that choice?
Andrea Portes
#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
#42. Describe Elvis Presley? He was the greatest who ever was, is or ever will be.
Chuck Berry
#43. 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
#44. God bless the boys from Memphis, blue suede shoes, and Elvis.
George Jones
#45. George Klein says that Elvis had five real friends outside of his circle, and I was blessed to be one of them. I spent a lot of time with Elvis in Vegas and at Graceland.
Bill Medley
#46. You can take Elvis. You can take Marilyn Monroe. Success and fame will not be the answer if something inside of you is bothering you, if things in your mind aren't going right.
Linda Evans
#48. Just a whole different style, just a whole different way of going about an audience and a way about skating. And they are so brilliant in their own way, which is great, and that's what Brian was saying; is the styles are different, and it's the whole mentality.
Elvis Stojko
#49. 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
#50. Crazy Elvis and the Flying Death Snakes. Make
Rick Riordan
#51. The best came from my martial arts teacher, who also taught Elvis. He said, 'Your ego will get you killed.'
William Sanderson
#52. I met Elvis in your woods one night," Terry said. One of the EMTs had given him a shot, and I thought it was beginning to work. "I knew I was nuts then. He was telling me how much he liked cats. I told him I was a dog person, myself.
Charlaine Harris
#53. Coming out's the hardest part, when you're Queen Elvis.
Robyn Hitchcock
#55. Elvis Presley had nothing to do with excellence, just myth.
Marlon Brando
#56. Elvis may be the King of Rock and Roll, but I am the Queen.
Little Richard
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. I was flying back from Lubbock and I saw Jesus on the plane, or maybe it was Elvis. You know, they kind of look the same.
Don Henley
#60. I want to entertain people. That's my whole life. To my last breath.
Elvis Presley
#61. When Elvis was there, they were stopping everything. Elvis had the moment for real. While I'm here, its not all about 50 Cent, but it was all about Elvis.
Curtis Jackson
#62. I was lucky enough to first meet Elvis at his house in Bel Air and he used to invite different artists, singers and musicians, to come and jam with him at his house.
Jackie DeShannon
#63. The only person that anybody's ever said I resemble is a young Elvis. It used to happen a lot more when I was younger, and more when I don't wear a hat.
Jason Aldean
#64. I think Elvis Presley will never be solved
Nick Tosches
#65. I didn't have any inhibitions. I saw Elvis and Gene Vincent, and I thought, "Well, I can do this." And I liked doing it.
Mick Jagger
#66. 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
#67. The first record I bought was a Carl Perkins record, because I saw him at The Festival at Sandpoint, Idaho. I loved Elvis and I found out that he wrote 'Blue Suede Shoes' ... so connecting that experience of going to see him play was pretty awesome. That's when I realised I wanted to play guitar.
Josh Homme
#69. There have been many accolades uttered about Elvis' talent and performances through the years, all of which I agree with wholeheartedly. I shall miss him dearly as a friend. He was a warm, considerate and generous man.
Frank Sinatra
#70. 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
#71. Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.
Elvis Presley
#72. And obviously, when I started out, I had a little bit more curiosity than some, and went seeking out the original artists, or in some cases searching up country music.
Elvis Costello
#73. The stuff I write I'm very proud of, but I'm smart enough to know I'll never get on the cover of 'Rolling Stone' next to Elvis Costello.
Dan Hill
#74. Back when the country was strong, back before Elvis and before the Vietnam war came along.
Merle Haggard
#76. 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
#77. I knew about Elvis. Of course, everybody knew about him then.
Minnie Pearl
#78. Obviously the people that I admired, like the Beatles, were really into rock'n'roll, but it was already a little past rock'n'roll when I started listening and making my own choices about music.
Elvis Costello
#79. He combed his hair like Elvis and had a slightly dangerous look, like a sailor two drinks into a shore leave that will end badly.
Stephen King
#80. Listen to the inner voice that allows you to be you!
Elvis Stojko
#81. You've got to follow that dream, wherever that dream may lead.
Elvis Presley
#82. She wears life like Elvis wore sequins, with no apology laced into the seams.
Ashley Poston
#83. I am like a chameleon, influenced by whatever's going on. If Elvis can do it, I can do it. If the Everly Brothers can do it, me and Paul can. Same with Dylan.
John Lennon
#84. I trained and trained and went up against Kurt, then being a world champion in '94, and after that I did Tommy's tour and then my tour and all this stuff and just trying to deal with it all. And now, I've just kind of backed off a little.
Elvis Stojko
#85. Don't get smart or sarcastic
He snaps back just like elastic
Spare us the theatrics and the verbal gymnastics
We break wise guys just like matchsticks
Elvis Costello
#86. 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
#87. Tomorrow will be too late, it's now or never ...
Elvis Presley
#88. I knew I was in trouble, but I thought I was in hell.
Elvis Costello
#89. When I got outta High School I was driving a truck. I was just a poor boy from Memphis, Memphis.
Elvis Presley
#90. You're always learning on different avenues and this is an opportunity for me to start on a fresh plate and start learning some other things that can really help me, that I need, and I want, to progress forward.
Elvis Stojko
#91. Plenty of people detested Michael Jackson before his death wiped away the world's collective memory. Timberlake was originally dismissed as just another boy-bander. Legions have joined in a 'Hate Anne Hathaway' movement. Elvis, the Rolling Stones, Kristen Bell, even Mozart had haters.
Kurt Eichenwald
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. 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
#97. 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
#98. 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
#100. Didja ever get one of them girls who just wants to watch the show?
Elvis Presley
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