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Elvis Presley Quotes About Music

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.

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

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

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

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.'

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

I miss my singing career very much.

Elvis Presley Quotes About Filmmaking

When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.

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

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.

Those movies sure got me into a rut.

Too much TV hurts movies.

More Quotes by Elvis Presley

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

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

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

Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.

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

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

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

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

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

The image is one thing and the human being is another. It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

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

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.

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

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

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

The army teaches boys to think like men.

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

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

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

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.

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

I like entertaining people. I really miss it.

I never expected to be anybody important.

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

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

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I'm so nervous. I've always been nervous, ever since I was a kid.

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.

When I get married, it'll be no secret.

Man, I really like Vegas.

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 don't do any vulgar movements.

I was an overnight sensation.

I'm no hillbilly singer.

I'll stay in Memphis.

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