Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.
Elvis Presley
I'm not trying to be sexy. It's just my way of expressing myself when I move around.
Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.
I hope I didn't bore you too much with my life story.
Until we meet again, may God bless you as he has blessed 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.'
Whatever I will become will be what God has chosen for me.
When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.
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.
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
I'm strictly for Stevenson. I don't dig the intellectual bit, but I'm telling you, man, he knows the most.
I have no use for bodyguards, but I have very specific use for two highly trained certified public accountants.
I never expected to be anybody important.
I was training to be an electrician. I suppose I got wired the wrong way round somewhere along the line.
The army teaches boys to think like men.
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'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'm trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It's so easy to get turned.
I'm so nervous. I've always been nervous, ever since I was a kid.
Man, I really like Vegas.
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 think I have something tonight that's not quite correct for evening wear. Blue suede shoes.
The Lord can give, and the Lord can take away. I might be herding sheep next year.
I knew by heart all the dialogue of James Dean's films; I could watch Rebel Without a Cause a hundred times over.
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.
There are too many people that depend on me. I'm too obligated. I'm in too far to get out.
Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.
They put me on television. And the whole thing broke loose. It was wild, I tell ya for sure.
After a hard day of basic training, you could eat a rattlesnake.
People ask me where I got my singing style. I didn't copy my style from anybody.
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.
It's human nature to gripe, but I'm going ahead and doing the best I can.
From the time I was a kid, I always knew something was going to happen to me. Didn't know exactly what.
Those movies sure got me into a rut.
I'll stay in Memphis.
I've been getting some bad publicity - but you got to expect that.
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've tried to lead a straight, clean life, not set any kind of a bad example.
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 happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.
I learned how important it is to entertain people and give them a reason to come and watch you play.
I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were.
When I got outta High School I was driving a truck. I was just a poor boy from Memphis, Memphis.
I miss my singing career very much.
More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me.
That's why I hate to get started in these jam sessions. I'm always the last one to leave.
Just because I managed to do a little something, I don't want anyone back home to think I got the big head.
Later on they send me to Hollywood. To make movies. It was all new to me. I was only 21 years old.
