Quotes

“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.” Elvis Presley

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

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

“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.” Elvis Presley

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

“Too much TV hurts movies.” Elvis Presley

“The army teaches boys to think like men.” Elvis Presley

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

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

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

“When I get married, it'll be no secret.” Elvis Presley

“I don't do any vulgar movements.” Elvis Presley

“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.” Elvis Presley

“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.” Elvis Presley

“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.” Elvis Presley

“I'm so nervous. I've always been nervous, ever since I was a kid.” Elvis Presley

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

“I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.” Elvis Presley

“I like entertaining people. I really miss it.” Elvis Presley

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

“I was an overnight sensation.” Elvis Presley

“I'd just like to be treated like a regular customer.” Elvis Presley

“I'll never make it, it will never happen, because they're never going to hear me 'cause they're screaming all the time.” Elvis Presley

“I'll stay in Memphis.” Elvis Presley

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

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

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

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

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

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