Quotes By Elvis Presley

It's human nature to gripe, but I'm going ahead and doing the best I can.

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.

Too much TV hurts movies.

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

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

I was an overnight sensation.

Those people in New York are not gonna change me none.

I never expected to be anybody important.

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

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

I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.

I miss my singing career very much.

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.

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.

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

I don't do any vulgar movements.

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.

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

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

Those movies sure got me into a rut.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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