Elvis was God-given, there's no other explanation. A Messiah comes around every few thousand years, and Elvis was it this time.
Black people lived right by the railroad tracks and the train would shake their houses at night. I would hear it as a boy and I thought: I'm gonna make a song that sounds like that.
I thank God for Elvis Presley. I thank the Lord for sending Elvis to open the door so I could walk down the road.
I got fame and fortune, and I lost my sense of reasoning.
God is omnipotent, He is omniscient, and He is ever present.
I don't think that you have to be effeminate to be sensitive.
But men are so full of greed today, they'll sell anything for a little piece of money.
Rock 'n' roll doesn't glorify God. You can't drink out of God's cup and the devil's cup at the same time. I was one of the pioneers of that music, one of the builders. I know what the blocks are made of because I built them.
When you sit down and think about what rock 'n' roll music really is, then you have to change that question. Played up-tempo, you call it rock 'n' roll; at a regular tempo, you call it rhythm and blues.
It's hard to have a friend when your name's a household word.
They shoulda called me Little Cocaine, I was sniffing so much of the stuff! My nose got big enough to back a diesel truck in, unload it, and drive it right out again.
I just want the world to know that God is present, that he's alive for ever more.
I saw Uncle John with Long Tall Sally, he saw Aunt Mary coming and he ducked back in the alley.
I am the architect of rock n' roll. I have to be a fan of all its forms.
I gave up rock 'n' roll for the rock of ages! I used to be a glaring homosexual until God changed me!
And I don't get down on nobody else for doing whatever else they do. To each his own.
Rock 'n' roll offered me a platform to speak what I felt. It also offered me a platform to support my mama and my brothers and sisters - twelve children.
I've never seen the devil create music.
I look back on my life, comin' out of Macon, Georgia - I never thought I'd be a superstar, a living legend. I never heard of no rock and roll in my life.
I don't think a woman has to act like a man to show that she has strength.
I got a girl named Bony Maronie, she's as skinny as a stick of macaroni.
I would wear flamboyant clothes and long hair, and most singers at the time didn't.
It was a way out of poverty. It was a way to success. It was a way to education. And it was a way to a brighter day for me.
No, I've never truly been a minister.
Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock.
