Elvis Presley Quotes

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

Man, I really like Vegas.

Wise men say, only fools rush in. But I can't help, falling in love with you.

Be ye innocent as doves yet wise as serphants new testament quoted by Elvis Presley and applied to karate

When you get down to the nitty gritty, isn't it a pity that in this big city not one little bitty man will admit that he could have been a little wrong.

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.

I'm not kidding myself. My voice alone is just an ordinary voice. What people come to see is how I use it. If I stand still while I'm singing, I'm dead, man. I might as well go back to driving a truck.

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.

I want to entertain people. That's my whole life. To my last breath.

The only thing worse than watching a bad movie is being in one.

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

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'm lonely like Adam and you're evil like Eve.

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

When we kiss my heart's on fire, burning with a strange desire. And I know that every time I kiss you, that your heart's on fire, too.

When I was a child, ladies and gentlemen, I was a dreamer. I read comic books and I was the hero of the comic book. I saw movies 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 bend - without a song.' So I keep singing a song. Goodnight. Thank you.

Money honey, if you want to get along with me.

A little less conversation, a little more ACTION.

Animals don't hate, and we're supposed to be better than them.

The man who can sing when he hasn't got a thing, he's the king of the whole wide world.

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

I forgot to remember to forget.

I don't do any vulgar movements.

Where could I go but to the Lord?

Too much TV hurts movies.

Fame and fortune, how empty they can be.

Any audience, as a rule, goes for a fast number.

If one can't give what they have and share then they will always be empty

Never wait for tomorrow, what if tomorrow never comes?

Ah just act the way ah feel.

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.

It's all a big hoax, honey. I never wrote a song in my life. I get one-third of the credit for recording it. It makes me look smarter than I am. I've never even had an idea for a song. Just once, mybe.

I figure all any kid needs is hope and the feeling he or she belongs.

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

[It's] funny how things have a way of looking so much brighter in the daytime.

we can't build our dreams,
on suspicious minds

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

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

Envy someone an' it pulls you down. Admire them and it builds you up. Which makes more sense?

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

I'm with a crowd but oh so alone.

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

I don't want to be a tiger, tigers play too rough. I don't want to be a lion, cause lions ain't the kind you love up.

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

Take care of the fans and they will sure as hell take care of you.

In public, I like real conservative clothes, something that's not too flashy. But onstage, I like 'em as flashy as you can get 'em.

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

You've got to follow that dream, wherever that dream may lead.

You don't like hot rod racing or driving late at night, you just want to park where it's nice and dark.

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

TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS ... guess Elvis use to say it alot and had necklaces made with initials TCB

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

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

If you wanna be loved, baby, you've got to love me, too. Oh yeah, cause I an't for no one side love affair.

I've come too far, and I don't know how to get back.

Folks always look good in their coffins.

I didn't know that there were any radio stations in Nova Scotia.

The first car I bought was the most beautiful car I've ever seen. It was secondhand, but I parked it outside of my hotel the day I got it. I sat up all night, just lookin' at it.

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

A little less fight and a little more spark, close your mouth and open your heart.

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

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

How can you lose something you never had, I tell myself when I'm feeling sad.

When things go bad, don't go with them.

The walls have ears, better think before you throw that shoe.

I don't mind being controversial. Even Jesus wasn't loved in his day.

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.

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine. Ain't nowhere else in the world where you can go from driving a truck to cadillac overnight

It's not just self defense, it's about ... self control, body discipline, and mind discipline ... and breath techniques. It involves yoga. It involves meditation. It's an art, not a sport.

When I was a child I was a dreamer. I read comic books, and I was the hero of the comic book. I saw movies, and I was the hero in the movie. So every dream I have ever dreamed has come true a thousand times.

Don't criticize that man unless you have walked in his shoes.

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.

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.

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

Music should be something that makes you gotta move, inside or outside.

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

Love is a thing you never can share.

I was almost always true to you.

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

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

The walls have ears, ears that hear each little sound you make every time you stamp, throw a lamp.

Fingerprints are like values
you leave them all over everything you do

Take my hand, take my whole life, too.

You ain't nothing but hound dog, cryin' all the time. You ain't never caught a rabbit and you ain't no friend of mine.

Then came Act II, you seemed to change and acted strange, and why I'll never know.

I've never gotten over what they call stagefright. I go through it every show. I'm pretty concerned, I'm pretty much thinking about the show. I never get completely comfortable with it, and I don't let the people around me get comfortable with it, in that I remind them that it's a new crowd out there, it's a new audience, and they haven't seen us before. So it's got to be like the first time we go on.

The greatest voice of all time.

If you bring a friend into your love affair, that's the end of your sweetheart that's the end of your friend, that's when your heartache begins.

I get sometimes; I get lonesome right in the middle of a crowd.

My philosophy of life is simple: I need someone to love, something to wait and do something.

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

Your kisses lift me higher ... like the sweet song of a choir. You light my morning sky, with burning love.

Life has taught me one big lesson, always keep the girlies guessing.

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.

You'll Never Walk Alone

When you walk through a storm hold your head up high
And don't be afraid of the dark.
At the end of a storm is a golden sky
And the sweet silver song of a lark.
Walk on through the wind,
Walk on through the rain,
Tho' your dreams be tossed and blown.
Walk on, walk on with hope in your heart
And you'll never walk alone,
You'll never, ever walk alone.

Walk on, walk on with hope in your heart
And you'll never walk alone,
You'll never, ever walk alone.

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

I've spent a life time waiting for the right time, now that you're near, the time is here at last.

It's not how much you have that makes people look up to you, it's who you are.

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