Elvis Presley Quotes

I never expected to be anybody important.

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."

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

Don't criticize that man unless you have walked in his shoes.

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

The first car I bought was the most beautiful car I've ever seen. It was secondhand, but I parked it outside of my hotel the day I got it. I sat up all night, just lookin' at it.

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

When I was a child 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 have ever dreamed has come true a thousand times.

All the stars will tell the story, of our love and all its glory. Let us make this night of magic, and make it a night of love.

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

Her little sister will tell you she don't live here anymore.

I love only one girl, one in every town.

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

I was almost always true to you.

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

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

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

The road to love is full of danger signs.

Maybe I didn't treat you Quite as good as I should have Maybe I didn't love you Quite as often as I could have Little things I should have said and done I just never took the time You were always on my mind You were always on my mind

I was an only child, and Mother was always right with me all my life. I used to get very angry at her when I was growing up-it's a natural thing.

I'd rather go on hearing your lies, than to go on living without you.

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

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

Ah just act the way ah feel.

There's no room to Rhumba in a sports car.

Do something worth remembering.

In my beach shack, we'll be alone. In my beach shack, I'll make you feel at home.

How can you lose something you never had, I tell myself when I'm feeling sad.

You ain't nothing but hound dog, cryin' all the time. You ain't never caught a rabbit and you ain't no friend of mine.

The greatest voice of all time.

In this day and time you can't even get sick; you are strung-out! Well by God, I'll tell you something, friend: I have never been strung-out in my life, except on music!

There are too many people that depend on me. I'm too obligated. I'm in too far to get out.

In public, I like real conservative clothes, something that's not too flashy. But onstage, I like 'em as flashy as you can get 'em.

I get tired of playing a guy who gets into a fight, then starts singing to the guy he's just beat up.

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

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

I am not the King. Jesus Christ is the King. I’m just an entertainer.

Everything is so dreamy when you are young. After you grow up it kind of becomes -- just real.

I saw three shrimp in the water, two were old and gray. I swam a little closer, and I heard the third one say, good-bye Mama.

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

Values are like fingerprints. Nobody's are the same, but you leave 'em all over everything you do

Viva Las Vegas with your neon flashin' and your one arm bandits crashin' all those hopes down the drain. Viva Las Vegas turnin' day into nighttime, turnin night into daytime. If you see it once, you'll never be the same again.

I wiggle my shoulders, I shake my legs, I walk up and down the stage, I hop around on one foot. But I never bump and grind. Why, that's vulgar. I'd never do anything vulgar before an audience. My mother would never allow it.