Quotes By Elvis Presley

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

I'm strictly for Stevenson. I don't dig the intellectual bit, but I'm telling you, man, he knows the most.

I miss my singing career very much.

That's why I hate to get started in these jam sessions. I'm always the last one to leave.

I like entertaining people. I really miss it.

I don't do any vulgar movements.

From the time I was a kid, I always knew something was going to happen to me. Didn't know exactly what.

Those movies sure got me into a rut.

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.

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

Just because I managed to do a little something, I don't want anyone back home to think I got the big head.

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

The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.

Since the beginning, it was just the same. The only difference, the crowds are bigger now.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

I learned how important it is to entertain people and give them a reason to come and watch you play.

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

My movements, ma'am, are all leg movements. I don't do nothing with my body.

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

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

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

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

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