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 knew by heart all the dialogue of James Dean's films; I could watch Rebel Without a Cause a hundred times over.
I learned how important it is to entertain people and give them a reason to come and watch you play.
I'll never make it, it will never happen, because they're never going to hear me 'cause they're screaming all the time.
The Lord can give, and the Lord can take away. I might be herding sheep next year.
I'm strictly for Stevenson. I don't dig the intellectual bit, but I'm telling you, man, he knows the most.
I think I have something tonight that's not quite correct for evening wear. Blue suede shoes.
I don't do any vulgar movements.
Since the beginning, it was just the same. The only difference, the crowds are bigger now.
Those people in New York are not gonna change me none.
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've never written a song in my life. It's all a big hoax.
I never expected to be anybody important.
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've tried to lead a straight, clean life, not set any kind of a bad example.
It's human nature to gripe, but I'm going ahead and doing the best I can.
Too much TV hurts movies.
People ask me where I got my singing style. I didn't copy my style from anybody.
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.
Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.
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.
From the time I was a kid, I always knew something was going to happen to me. Didn't know exactly what.
I'd just like to be treated like a regular customer.
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.
My movements, ma'am, are all leg movements. I don't do nothing with my body.
Just because I managed to do a little something, I don't want anyone back home to think I got the big head.
Man, I really like Vegas.
I'm no hillbilly singer.
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.
The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.
I like entertaining people. I really miss it.
There are too many people that depend on me. I'm too obligated. I'm in too far to get out.
After a hard day of basic training, you could eat a rattlesnake.
I'll stay in Memphis.
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 have no use for bodyguards, but I have very specific use for two highly trained certified public accountants.
Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.
Until we meet again, may God bless you as he has blessed me.
I'm so nervous. I've always been nervous, ever since I was a kid.
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'm not trying to be sexy. It's just my way of expressing myself when I move around.
More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me.
I was an overnight sensation.
That's why I hate to get started in these jam sessions. I'm always the last one to leave.
Whatever I will become will be what God has chosen for me.
I miss my singing career very much.
I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.
The army teaches boys to think like men.
When I get married, it'll be no secret.
