Memphis Quotations | Page 2

I like living in a smaller town better than I do the city. People in Memphis are spread out doing their own things. Everybody sticks together here.

I met the Colonel when Elvis was recording some song I'd written for one of his movies. Elvis was just having fun with the gang and all the Memphis boys and Colonel Parker was sitting over here in like a theater seat.

I had no idea I listened to Memphis soul as a kid,

I listen to all types of music. I have been in Memphis recently, so I've been listening to some blues like Muddy Waters, and some early Elvis.

I rap about Memphis and what a dangerous spot that is.

I dont know. I would love to do some TV, but what Id really love is to see Memphis   on Broadway. It would be the crowning jewel in my careerif my career were ending in a few years (laughs) but its one of those roles that you just love doing I cant wait for it to come here be seen. It is (not to sound dramatic or anything) but a triumph and return to the American Musical.

I love the South. Although I grew up primarily in Memphis, my family moved around a ton when I was a kid. I guess I never stayed in one place long enough to pick up the accent, but I definitely identify as a Southerner.

It's funny, when you're a child you think time will never go by, but when you hit about twenty, time passes like you're on the fast train to Memphis. I guess life just slips up on everybody. It sure did on me.

I'd take Memphis against WVU or GW. There are differences, but the main one is Memphis is so deep.

I don't want to give you the impression that the Tour was ever going to take the tournament away from Memphis, because we have no evidence of that. But we didn't want to take that chance. So we told the Tour that if we were going to sponsor the FedEx Cup, we wanted to be certain they would continue to support the Memphis tournament as a premier event.

I could have played, ... I've been able to play for a while now, but Memphis wanted me to rest so I can be ready for the season. They don't really want me to play during the summer because the season is so long.

I called this to the attention to the Corps of Engineers Memphis District Office and reminded them that federal law that prohibited any private structures from being on federal property.

Because I was single, there was a chance I was a homosexual. Because I went to Syracuse, wherever that was, then I was probably a Communist. Or worse, a Liberal. Because I was from Memphis, I was a subversive intent on embarrassing Ford County.

It's been a pleasure to bring my talents to south beach now on to Memphis.

Anytime I was in Memphis with my dad and at the house, I was happy. That was, like, a given. It was what I lived for. And I still feel the same excitement and warmth.

Memphis found his smile. 'You know me, sir. I don't wear worry.

Life don’t come to you, Memphis. You gotta take it. We have to take it. Because ain’t nobody handing it to us.

The environment was great and to come in here and find a way to get it done is huge. I feel good for our guys. Memphis is a very hard team to defend because of the way they play.

The chemistry is getting better. We are getting used to the new guys out there. We're starting to execute what Coach wants. Ever since the Memphis game, we have taken off. We should be 4-0 but we lost the close one to Memphis and really we should have beaten Chicago.

The coaches at Memphis recommend (Bailey) to come here. We have a good relationship with those guys. They know that we make the kids better students, better basketball players and kind of take care of them.

The Memphis Tigers are coming in, and they are a premier team in the country. It'll be a tremendous challenge for our guys.

(The) market in Memphis continues to be strong in the first three months of the year, with the busiest months ahead of us.

The logistics of campaigning when the people live in Houston and Memphis ... would be an incredibly expensive campaign. This is an empty city, a city without people.

I'll stay in Memphis.

Big train from Memphis, now it's gone gone gone, gone gone gone. Like no one before, he let out a roar, and I just had to tag along.

I love Motown, but I've obviously always been more of a Memphis soul fan. If it's Stax or Motown, I go Stax.

No such thing as a hard woman, Memphis,just soft men. With that, I turned, and the others followed me.

Walking in Memphis, I was walking with my feet ten feet off of Beale. Walking in Memphis, but do I really feel the way I feel?

Most studios in Memphis had a house set of drums; the drummers just brought their own sticks.

Memphis is in a very lucky position on the map. Everything just gravitated to Memphis for years.

ELVIS PRESLEY was bigger than life. His success was documented and laid out for him. He came to the first show I had in Memphis, and it was very nice. He sort of treated me like an equal, because we were both fresh in the business. We got to be great friends and kindred souls.

Memphis held onto me until I was far enough along in my art and then it let me go.

When I talk about music in Memphis, it's a place you can go if you are a beginning artist or anywhere in your career, and you can incubate.

Mississippi begins in a lobby of a Memphis, Tennessee hotel and extends south to the Gulf of Mexico

I have some that I have become a well-known-even infamous-client of, mostly in Memphis. But a great deal of that is legend and doesn't have anything to do with truth.