Elvis Presley Quotations

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.

I'm not trying to be sexy. It's just my way of expressing myself when I move around.

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.

I learned how important it is to entertain people and give them a reason to come and watch you play.

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.'

I'd just like to be treated like a regular customer.

People ask me where I got my singing style. I didn't copy my style from anybody.

When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.

I think I have something tonight that's not quite correct for evening wear. Blue suede shoes.

From the time I was a kid, I always knew something was going to happen to me. Didn't know exactly what.

I'll never feel comfortable taking a strong drink, and I'll never feel easy smoking a cigarette. I just don't think those things are right for me.

I did the Ed Sullivan show four times. I did the Steve Allen show. I did the Jackie Gleason show.

Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.

I'm trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It's so easy to get turned.

Whatever I will become will be what God has chosen for me.

I'll never make it, it will never happen, because they're never going to hear me 'cause they're screaming all the time.

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

I have no use for bodyguards, but I have very specific use for two highly trained certified public accountants.

I don't think I'm bad for people. If I did think I was bad for people, I would go back to driving a truck, and I really mean this.

I like to sing ballads the way Eddie Fisher does and the way Perry Como does. But the way I'm singing now is what makes the money.

The Lord can give, and the Lord can take away. I might be herding sheep next year.

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

Until we meet again, may God bless you as he has blessed me.

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.

They put me on television. And the whole thing broke loose. It was wild, I tell ya for sure.

Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

When I got outta High School I was driving a truck. I was just a poor boy from Memphis, Memphis.

The army teaches boys to think like men.

Those people in New York are not gonna change me none.

I've been getting some bad publicity - but you got to expect that.

I've never written a song in my life. It's all a big hoax.

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

Since the beginning, it was just the same. The only difference, the crowds are bigger now.

The next thing I knew, I was out of the service and making movies again. My first picture was called, GI Blues. I thought I was still in the army.

There are too many people that depend on me. I'm too obligated. I'm in too far to get out.

I like entertaining people. I really miss it.

I'm strictly for Stevenson. I don't dig the intellectual bit, but I'm telling you, man, he knows the most.

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.

The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I'm doin' now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them.

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

My movements, ma'am, are all leg movements. I don't do nothing with my body.

More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me.

I was training to be an electrician. I suppose I got wired the wrong way round somewhere along the line.

When I get married, it'll be no secret.

I'm so nervous. I've always been nervous, ever since I was a kid.

Just because I managed to do a little something, I don't want anyone back home to think I got the big head.

Man, that record came out and was real big in Memphis. They started playing it, and it got real big. Don't know why-the lyrics had no meaning.

I hope I didn't bore you too much with my life story.

After a hard day of basic training, you could eat a rattlesnake.

I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.

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.

The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.

I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were.

Later on they send me to Hollywood. To make movies. It was all new to me. I was only 21 years old.

That's why I hate to get started in these jam sessions. I'm always the last one to leave.

Those movies sure got me into a rut.

I knew by heart all the dialogue of James Dean's films; I could watch Rebel Without a Cause a hundred times over.

When I was a child, ladies and gentleman, I was a dreamer. I read comic books, and I was the hero in the movie. So every dream I ever dreamed has come true a hundred times...I learned very early in life that: "Without a song, the day would never end; without a song, a man ain't got a friend; without a song, the road would never bed -- without a song." So I keep singing my song.

I am hands on with this with Bruno,

Do what's right for you, as long as it don't hurt no one

I knew by heart all the dialogue of James Dean's films; I could watch "Rebel Without a Cause" a hundred times over.

Make me feel at home, if you really care, scratch my back and run your pretty fingers through my hair.

You can do anything, but lay off my blue suede shoes

I like Brando's acting ... and James Dean ... and Richard Widmark. Quite a few of 'em I like.

Rock and roll is a music, and why should a music contribute to ... juvenile delinquency? If people are going to be juvenile delinquents, they're going to be delinquents if they hear ... Mother Goose rhymes.

I just know that, right now, ... the biggest record selling business there is is rock and roll.

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.

There is a season for everything, patience will reward you and reveal all answers to your questions.' 'Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't going away.

I don't feel I'll live a long life. That's why I have to get what I can from every day.

I get tired of singing to the guys I beat up in motion pictures.

C'mon, let's get real, real gone.

Do the Clam, do the Clam, grab your barefoot baby by the hand.

She touched my hand what a chill I got, her lips are like a volcano that's hot.

Blacko-oxy-tonic phosphate, it's the latest scoop. But that's alright girls, you can call it goop.

I feel my temperature rising. Help me, I'm flaming, I must be a hundred and nine.

Nine and nine makes fourteen, four and four makes nine. The clock is striking thirteen, I think I've lost my mind.

Hey buddy, don't you be no square, if you can't find a partner use a wooden chair.

There's no room to Rhumba in a sports car.

Gospel music is the purest thing there is on this earth.

A hard headed woman, a soft hearted man, been the cause of trouble ever since the world began.

Computers may out think us one day, but as long as people got feelings we'll be better than they are.

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.

We can't build our dreams on suspicious minds.

I wouldn't call girls a hobby. It's a pastime.

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.

If you're smart, you'll think twice, when they start to sound off with advice.

Love is a thing you never can share.

I look at you and wham, I'm head over heals. I guess that love is like a banana peel.

You're so square, baby, I don't care.

I go for all the belles, except the wedding kind.

I'm left, you're right, and she's gone. You're right, and I'm left all alone.

On a cold and gray Chicago morning another little baby child is born in the ghetto, and his Mama cries.

The road to love is full of danger signs.

In my beach shack, we'll be alone. In my beach shack, I'll make you feel at home.

I forgot to remember to forget.

Number 47 said to number 3, you're the cutest jailbird I ever did see.

When we're dancing it almost feels the same, I've got to stop myself from whispering your name.

Some guys fall in love with one girl, I gotta fall for two.

If you talk in your sleep, don't mention my name. If you walk in your sleep, forget where you came.

I was almost always true to you.