Quotes By Elvis Presley

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

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

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 like entertaining people. I really miss it.

I don't do any vulgar movements.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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