Elvis Presley Quotes

The image is one thing and the human being is another...it's very hard to live up to an image.

Friends are people you can talk to... without words when you have to.

That's why I hate to get started in these jam sessions. I'm always the last one to leave.

From the time I was a kid, I always knew something was going to happen to me. Didn't know exactly what.

I knew by heart all the dialogue of James Dean's films; I could watch Rebel Without a Cause a hundred times over.

When we kiss my heart's on fire, burning with a strange desire. And I know that every time I kiss you, that your heart's on fire, too.

I think I have something tonight that's not quite correct for evening wear. Blue suede shoes.

I'm no hillbilly singer.

I'm not trying to be sexy. It's just my way of expressing myself when I move around.

I’m so lucky to be in the position to give. It’s really a gift to give.

When you get down to the nitty gritty, isn't it a pity that in this big city not one little bitty man will admit that he could have been a little wrong.

Wise men say only fools rush in. But I can't help falling in love with you.

Love me tender, love me true, all my dreams fulfill. For my darling, I love you, and I always will.

You're so square, baby, I don't care.

Music should be something that makes you gotta move, inside or outside.

Life has taught me one big lesson, always keep the girlies guessing.

The man who can sing when he hasn't got a thing, he's the king of the whole wide world.

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.

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

Sharing money is what gives it its value.

Sad thing is, you can still love someone and be wrong for them.

I don't like people who are in politics for themselves and not for others. You want that, you can go into show business.

People ask me where I got my singing style. I didn't copy my style from anybody.

Animals don't hate, and we're supposed to be better than them.

I never expected to be anybody important.

I've come too far, and I don't know how to get back.

My philosophy of life is simple: I need someone to love, something to wait and do something.

Fame and fortune, how empty they can be.

I was training to be an electrician. I suppose I got wired the wrong way round somewhere along the line.

We do two shows a night for five weeks. A lotta times we'll go upstairs and sing until daylight - gospel songs. We grew up with it...It more or less puts your mind at ease. It does mine.

Man, I really like Vegas.

I'm so nervous. I've always been nervous, ever since I was a kid.

Talent is being able to sell what you're feeling.

Before you abuse, criticize, and accuse walk a mile in my shoes.

NUTHIN' more fun than Rock n' Roll!

I've never written a song in my life. It's all a big hoax.

Samson told Delilah loud and clear, keep your cotton picken fingers out of my hair.

I learned how important it is to entertain people and give them a reason to come and watch you play.

The army teaches boys to think like men.

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

You can do anything, but lay off my blue suede shoes

Memories, pressed between the pages of my mind. Memories, sweetened through the ages just like wine.

I've spent a life time waiting for the right time, now that you're near, the time is here at last.

I'm trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It's so easy to get turned.

The Lord can give, and the Lord can take away. I might be herding sheep next year.

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

Just because I managed to do a little something, I don't want anyone back home to think I got the big head.

More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me.

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.

When I get married, it'll be no secret.