Music Quotes

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.

The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I'm doin' now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them.

Tell me a musician who's got rich off digital sales. Apple's doing pretty good though, right?

Like books and black lives, albums still matter.

When I first started out in this music industry, I was most concerned with freedom. Freedom to produce, freedom to play all the instruments on my records, freedom to say anything I wanted to.

My father left his piano at the house when he left, and I wasn't allowed to play it when he was there because I wasn't as good as him. So when he left, I was determined to get as good as him, and I taught myself how to play music, and I just stuck with it, and I did it all the time.

I don't see why I should give my new music to iTunes or anyone else. They won't pay me an advance for it and then they get angry when they can't get it.

I learned from Jimi Hendrix. They all wanted him to do the tricks, and at the end of his career, he just wanted to play. I lived longer than he did, and I can see how those pressures can really play with your head.