Words of wisdom from the king, Elvis Presley…
When I got out of high school I was driving a truck. I was just a poor Memphite boy.
—Elvis Presley
It is human nature to hold back, but I go and do what I can.
—Elvis Presley
Just like being treated with a regular customer.
—Elvis Presley
From the beginning, it was the same. The only difference is now the crowds are bigger.
—Elvis Presley
Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can’t help but move to it. That happened to me. I can’t help it.
—Elvis Presley
I’m not trying to be sexy. It’s just my way of expressing myself when I move around.
—Elvis Presley
Truth is like the sun. You can block time, but it doesn’t have to go away.
—Elvis Presley
I tried to lead a straight, clean life, I did not set any bad example.
—Elvis Presley
When I’m there, I do what they want to hear. When I come back here, I can do what I want.
—Elvis Presley
Besides other things, I want people back home to think right about me.
—Elvis Presley
How important it is to know how to entertain people and give them a reason to come and watch the game.
—Elvis Presley
When I was a child, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and movies. I grew up believing in this dream.
—Elvis Presley
We are a perfect match. The old porter of the colonel, and I myself go from the wall.
—Elvis Presley
I was an only child, and my mother was always with me all my life. I used to be very angry when I was growing up, it’s a natural thing.
—Elvis Presley
These New Yorkers don’t care and they won’t change me.
—Elvis Presley
Too many TV movies hurts.
—Elvis Presley
Afterwards they send me to Hollywood. To him. It was all new to me. I am only 21 years old.
—Elvis Presley
I think I have something tonight that is not quite right for an evening gown. He followed the blue shoes.
—Elvis Presley
Those movies definitely got me into the groove.
—Elvis Presley
An image is one thing, a person is another. It’s very hard to live up to the image, so put it this way.
—Elvis Presley
I’ve been some bad publicity – but I expect that.
—Elvis Presley
The Lord can give, and the Lord can take away. To feed the sheep next year.
—Elvis Presley
I definitely lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyor belt of mass production, as were most of my films.
—Elvis Presley
The next thing I knew I was out of the military and making movies again. My first picture was called GI Blues. I thought I was still in the army.
—Elvis Presley
The colored people have been chanting and mocking him like I’m doin’ now, man, for more years than I know. I received from them.
—Elvis Presley
Rhythm is something you either have or you don’t have, but when you have it, you have it all.
—Elvis Presley
They put the answer and it got pretty big in the South. But I still had my job, driving a truck during the day and working in nightclubs at night.
—Elvis Presley
I like to sing songs the way Eddie Fisher does and the way Perry Como does. But now I just sing because it makes money.
—Elvis Presley
The closest I ever got to a wedding was before I started singing. For my first memory saved my neck.
—Elvis Presley
He tries to keep a level head. You have to be careful in the world. It is so easy to convert.
—Elvis Presley
I believe in the Bible. I believe that all good things come from God. I don’t believe I would be singing the way I do if God hadn’t wanted me to.
—Elvis Presley
There are too many who depend on me. I am too obliged. I’m on the way out.
—Elvis Presley
So many kids and adults alike have gotten almost one of the harshest breakouts that can happen to a person. We can help these people.
—Elvis Presley
The army teaches boys to think like men.
—Elvis Presley
Whatsoever I have chosen, that which God hath chosen in me shall be done.
—Elvis Presley
I never expected anyone to be important.
—Elvis Presley
I do not make common movements.
—Elvis Presley
I am not a hit singer.
—Elvis Presley
I will never do it, it will never happen, because they never hear me ’cause they scream all the time.
—Elvis Presley
Because I was able to do little, I don’t want anyone to return home to think I got a big head.
—Elvis Presley
Every time I think that I am getting old and slowly going to the grave, something else happens.
—Elvis Presley
I was sensible at night.
—Elvis Presley
You go to the papers and see what they tried to do to me. If you had come to me, we would have done things.
—Elvis Presley
Man, this book came out and Memphis was really great. They started playing and it got real big. I don’t know why—the lyrics mean nothing.
—Elvis Presley
I have nothing to do with satellites, but I have a special training certificate in two of the largest public records.
—Elvis Presley
I didn’t know there were any radio stations in Nova Scotia.
—Elvis Presley
I never wrote a poem in my life. You know all the great things.
—Elvis Presley
He likes the pleasures of men. I really miss you.
—Elvis Presley
Ever since I was a kid, I always knew something was going to happen to me. He did not know what.
—Elvis Presley
I was training to be an electrician. I think I ran the wrong circuit somewhere along the line.
—Elvis Presley
I am not a saint, but I have no intention of doing anything that would hurt my family or offend God. If there was anything I could do or say that would give any kid that feeling, I would believe that I had contributed something to the world.’
—Elvis Presley
The purest gospel music there is in this country.
—Elvis Presley
They had a dog and they were pulling me out of here.
—Elvis Presley
In the music business it happened when there was no trend.
—Elvis Presley
Some tap their feet, some snap their fingers, some wave back and forth. I just sorted them all out, I guess.
—Elvis Presley
I will never get comfortable getting drunk, and I will never feel comfortable smoking a cigarette. I just don’t think they are for me.
—Elvis Presley
People will ask me where I got my singing style. I don’t copy my style from anyone.
—Elvis Presley
I don’t think I’m bad for people. If I thought I was bad for people, I would go back to driving a truck, and I really mean it.
—Elvis Presley
Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.
—Elvis Presley
I don’t want to read these plays that are around today. They call my niece in Scarsdale. I love my niece in Scarsdale, but I won’t buy tickets to see her act.
—Elvis Presley
I don’t know what about music. You don’t have to be in my line of work.
—Elvis Presley
I knew all the dialogue of James Dean’s films by heart; I could watch Rebel without reason a hundred times over.
—Elvis Presley
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