Quotes By Elvis Presley

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

I'm trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It's so easy to get turned.

Those movies sure got me into a rut.

I'd just like to be treated like a regular customer.

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

The army teaches boys to think like men.

I'm no hillbilly singer.

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

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

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.

I've tried to lead a straight, clean life, not set any kind of a bad example.

There are too many people that depend on me. I'm too obligated. I'm in too far to get out.

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.

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.

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

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

I was an overnight sensation.

I'm not trying to be sexy. It's just my way of expressing myself when I move around.

I never expected to be anybody important.

Until we meet again, may God bless you as he has blessed me.

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

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

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 don't do any vulgar movements.

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.

I like entertaining people. I really miss it.

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.