Words of wisdom from the ‘King’, Elvis Presley…
When I got outta High School I was driving a truck. I was just a poor boy from Memphis.
—Elvis Presley
It’s human nature to gripe, but I’m going ahead and doing the best I can.
—Elvis Presley
I’d just like to be treated like a regular customer.
—Elvis Presley
Since the beginning, it was just the same. The only difference, the crowds are bigger now.
—Elvis Presley
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.
—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 shut it out for a time, but it ain’t goin’ away.
—Elvis Presley
I’ve tried to lead a straight, clean life, not set any kind of a bad example.
—Elvis Presley
When I’m out there, I do what they want to hear. When I’m back here, I can do what I want to do.
—Elvis Presley
More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me.
—Elvis Presley
I learned how important it is to entertain people and give them a reason to come and watch you play.
—Elvis Presley
When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.
—Elvis Presley
We’re the perfect combination. Colonel’s an old carny, and me, I’m off the wall.
—Elvis Presley
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.
—Elvis Presley
Those people in New York are not gonna change me none.
—Elvis Presley
Too much TV hurts movies.
—Elvis Presley
Later on they send me to Hollywood. To make movies. It was all new to me. I was only 21 years old.
—Elvis Presley
I think I have something tonight that’s not quite correct for evening wear. Blue suede shoes.
—Elvis Presley
Those movies sure got me into a rut.
—Elvis Presley
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
I’ve been getting some bad publicity – but you got to expect that.
—Elvis Presley
The Lord can give, and the Lord can take away. I might be herding sheep next year.
—Elvis Presley
I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyor belt mass production, just like most of my movies were.
—Elvis Presley
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.
—Elvis Presley
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.
—Elvis Presley
Rhythm is something you either have or don’t have, but when you have it, you have it all over.
—Elvis Presley
They put the record out and it got pretty big in the South. But I still had my job, driving a truck daytimes and working nightclubs at night.
—Elvis Presley
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.
—Elvis Presley
The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.
—Elvis Presley
I’m trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It’s so easy to get turned.
—Elvis Presley
I believe in the Bible. I believe that all good things come from God. I don’t believe I’d sing the way I do if God hadn’t wanted me to.
—Elvis Presley
There are too many people that depend on me. I’m too obligated. I’m in too far to get out.
—Elvis Presley
So many kids and adults, too, have gotten just about one of the roughest breaks that can happen to a person. We can help these people.
—Elvis Presley
The army teaches boys to think like men.
—Elvis Presley
Whatever I will become will be what God has chosen for me.
—Elvis Presley
I never expected to be anybody important.
—Elvis Presley
I don’t do any vulgar movements.
—Elvis Presley
I’m no hillbilly singer.
—Elvis Presley
I’ll never make it, it will never happen, because they’re never going to hear me ’cause they’re screaming all the time.
—Elvis Presley
Just because I managed to do a little something, I don’t want anyone back home to think I got the big head.
—Elvis Presley
Every time I think that I’m getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.
—Elvis Presley
I was an overnight sensation.
—Elvis Presley
You went to the papers and tried to make me look bad. If you had come to me, we would have worked things out.
—Elvis Presley
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.
—Elvis Presley
I have no use for bodyguards, but I have a very special use for two highly trained certified public accountants.
—Elvis Presley
I didn’t know that there were any radio stations in Nova Scotia.
—Elvis Presley
I’ve never written a song in my life. It’s all a big hoax.
—Elvis Presley
I like entertaining people. I really miss it.
—Elvis Presley
From the time I was a kid, I always knew something was going to happen to me. Didn’t know exactly what.
—Elvis Presley
I was training to be an electrician. I suppose I got wired the wrong way round somewhere along the line.
—Elvis Presley
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
Gospel music is the purest thing there is on this earth.
—Elvis Presley
They had me singing to a dog and filmed me from here up.
—Elvis Presley
I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.
—Elvis Presley
Some people tap their feet, some people snap their fingers, and some people sway back and forth. I just sorta do ’em all together, I guess.
—Elvis Presley
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.
—Elvis Presley
People ask me where I got my singing style. I didn’t copy my style from anybody.
—Elvis Presley
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.
—Elvis Presley
Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.
—Elvis Presley
I don’t want to read about some of these actresses who are around today. They sound like 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 anything about music. In my line of work you don’t have to.
—Elvis Presley
I knew by heart all the dialog of James Dean’s films; I could watch Rebel Without a Cause a hundred times over.
—Elvis Presley
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