Music Quotes

When I was a child, ladies and gentlemen, I was a dreamer. I read comic books and I was the hero of the comic book. I saw movies and I was the hero in the movie. So every dream I ever dreamed has come true a hundred times...I learned very early in life that: 'Without a song, the day would never end; without a song, a man ain't got a friend; without a song, the road would never bend - without a song.' So I keep singing a song. Goodnight. Thank you.

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.

I've never gotten over what they call stagefright. I go through it every show. I'm pretty concerned, I'm pretty much thinking about the show. I never get completely comfortable with it, and I don't let the people around me get comfortable with it, in that I remind them that it's a new crowd out there, it's a new audience, and they haven't seen us before. So it's got to be like the first time we go on.

The first time that I appeared on stage, it scared me to death. I really didn't know what all the yelling was about. I didn't realize that my body was moving. It's a natural thing to me. So to the manager backstage I said, 'What'd I do? What'd I do?' And he said "Whatever it is, go back and do it again.

Man, I was tame compared to what they do now. Are you kidding? I didn't do anything but just jiggle.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

A little less fight and a little more spark, close your mouth and open your heart.

If you cry when you're in love, it sure ain't no disgrace.

I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.

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

Roy Orbison is the greatest singer in the world.

You look like an angel, walk like an angel, talk like an angel. But I got wise, you're the devil in disguise.

Don't leave my embrace for here in my arms is your place.