Quotes By Elvis Presley

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 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.

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyor belt mass production, just like most of my movies were.

To judge a man by his weakest link or deed is like judging the power of the ocean by one wave.

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

The army teaches boys to think like men.

It's human nature to gripe, but I'm going ahead and doing the best I can.

I'd just like to be treated like a regular customer.

If you let your head get too big, it'll break your neck.

Whatever I will become will be what God has chosen for me.

Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.

Do something worth remembering.

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

People think you're crazy if you talk about things they don't understand.

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

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

I never expected to be anybody important.

I figure all any kid needs is hope and the feeling he or she belongs. If I could do or say anything that would give some kid that feeling, I would believe I had contributed something to the world.

They put me on television. And the whole thing broke loose. It was wild, I tell ya for sure.