Elvis Presley Quotes

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

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I lose myself in my singing. Maybe it's my early training singing gospel hymns. I'm limp as a rag, worn out when a show's over.

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Since I was two years old, all I knew was gospel music. That music became such a part of my life it was as natural as dancing. A way to escape from the problems. And my way of release.

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My daddy knew a lot of guitar players, and most of them didn't work, so he said, "You should make your mind up to either be a guitar player or an electrician, but I never saw a guitar player that was worth a damn."

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My fans want my shirt. They can have my shirt. They put it on my back.

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I get tired of playing a guy who gets into a fight, then starts singing to the guy he's just beat up.

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She was the most wonderful mother anyone could ever have. She was always so kind and good.

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

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Man, I was tame compared to what they do now. Are you kidding? I didn't do anything but just jiggle.

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I don't aim to let this fame business get me. God gave me a voice. If I turned against God, I'd be finished.

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It just happened. I like to sing, and well, I just started singing and folks just started listening. I can't tell folks that I worked and learned and studied, and overcame disappointments, because I didn't.

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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.

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Well since my baby left me
Well I found a new place to dwell
Well it's down at the end of lonely street
At Heartbreak Hotel.

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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.

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Viva Las Vegas with your neon flashin' and your one arm bandits crashin' all those hopes down the drain. Viva Las Vegas turnin' day into nighttime, turnin night into daytime. If you see it once, you'll never be the same again.

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The world is more alive at night; it's like God isn't looking.

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

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

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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.

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

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What honey? What is that? It's a sign, I can't see it, wait a minute. Oh, thank you darlin', thank you very much. Oh, thank you. The thought is beautiful dear, and I love you for it, but I, I haven't been caught up in this thing and I can't accept this kingship thing because to me there's only one, which is Christ.

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All I want is to know the truth, to know and experience God. I'm a searcher, that's what I'm all about.

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The trouble is, when a fellow is by himself and starts thinking, the sad things are always stronger in his memory than the happy things.

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You only pass through this life once, you don't come back for an encore.

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The image is one thing and the human being is another... it's very hard to live up to an image.

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

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'To judge a man by his weakest link or deed is like judging the power of the ocean by one wave.'

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

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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.

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When I first saw you with your smile so tender, my heart was captured, my soul surrendered.

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