Elvis Presley Quotes - Page 6

I'd rather go on hearing your lies, than to go on living without you.

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.

Rock and roll is a music, and why should a music contribute to ... juvenile delinquency? If people are going to be juvenile delinquents, they're going to be delinquents if they hear ... Mother Goose rhymes.

I like pork chops and country ham, creamed potatoes, stuff like that. Redeye gravy. It comes from ham, bacon, stuff like that. It's the grease that you fry it in. I eat a lot of Jell-O. Fruit Jell-O.

Gonna travel, gonna travel wild and free I'm gonna pack my bags because this great big world is calling me

When I got outta High School I was driving a truck. I was just a poor boy from Memphis, Memphis.

It's all a big hoax, honey. I never wrote a song in my life. I get one-third of the credit for recording it. It makes me look smarter than I am. I've never even had an idea for a song. Just once, mybe.

You're just a natural beehive, filled with honey to the top. Well, I ain't greedy baby, all I want is all you got.

My fans want my shirt. They can have my shirt. They put it on my back.

In this day and time you can't even get sick; you are strung-out! Well by God, I'll tell you something, friend: I have never been strung-out in my life, except on music!

It's not just self defense, it's about...self control, body discipline, and mind discipline...and breath techniques. It involves yoga. It involves meditation. It's an art, not a sport.

I wore glasses, no music, and I won - I think it was - fifth place. I got a whipping the same day. My mother whipped me for something. Destroyed my ego completely.

I'm never going to sing another song I don't believe in. I'm never going to make another picture I don't believe in.

If you bring a friend into your love affair, that's the end of your sweetheart that's the end of your friend, that's when your heartache begins.

Since I was two years old, all I knew was gospel music. That music became such a part of my life it was as natural as dancing. A way to escape from the problems. And my way of release.

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

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

The army teaches boys to think like men.

I'll be a fool or a wiseman, my darling, you hold the key. Anyway you want me, that's how I will be.

Some guys fall in love with one girl, I gotta fall for two.

Don't tell me baby you gotta go, I got the hifi high and the lights down low.

Viva Las Vegas with your neon flashin' and your one arm bandits crashin' all those hopes down the drain. Viva Las Vegas turnin' day into nighttime, turnin night into daytime. If you see it once, you'll never be the same again.

[It's] funny how things have a way of looking so much brighter in the daytime.

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

I'm lonely like Adam and you're evil like Eve.