MOST UNIQUE AND FAMOUS ELVIS PRESLEY QUOTES
1) “The Lord can give, and the Lord can take away. I might be herding sheep next year.”
2) ‘’ People think you’re crazy if you talk about things they don’t understand.’’
3) ‘’ I’ve tried to lead a straight, clean life, not set any kind of a bad example.’’
4) ‘’ Those movies sure got me into a rut.’’
5) ‘’ I was training to be an electrician. I suppose I got wired the wrong way round somewhere along the line.’’
6) ‘’ I never expected to be anybody important.’’
7) ‘’ Do something worth remembering.’’
8) ‘’ They put me on television. And the whole thing broke loose. It was wild, I tell ya for sure.’’
9) ‘’ Sad thing is, you can still love someone and be wrong for them.’’
10) ‘’ I’m so nervous. I’ve always been nervous, ever since I was a kid.’’
11) ‘’ I learned how important it is to entertain people and give them a reason to come and watch you play.’’
12) ‘’ Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t going away.’’
13) ‘’ I was an overnight sensation.’’
14) ‘’ Animals don’t hate, and we’re supposed to be better than them.’’
15) ‘’ 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.’’
16) ‘’ I’m trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It’s so easy to get turned.’’
17) ‘’ Don’t criticize what you don’t understand, son. You never walked in that man’s shoes.’’
18) ‘’ When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.’’
19) ‘’ I hope I didn’t bore you too much with my life story.’’
20) ‘’ It’s not how much you have that makes people look up to you, it’s who you are.’’
21) ‘’ When things go wrong, don’t go with them.’’
22) ‘’ Values are like fingerprints. Nobody’s are the same, but you leave ’em all over everything you do.’’
23) ‘’ Until we meet again, may God bless you as he has blessed me.’’
24) ‘’ I’m not trying to be sexy. It’s just my way of expressing myself when I move around.’’
25) ‘’ Some people tap their feet, some people snap their fingers, and some people sway back and forth. I just sorta do ’em all together, I guess.’’
26) ‘’ 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.’’
27) ‘’ 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.’’
28) ‘’ 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.’’
29) ‘’ I think I have something tonight that’s not quite correct for evening wear. Blue suede shoes.’’
30) ‘’ I don’t know anything about music. In my line you don’t have to.’’
31) ‘’ To judge a man by his weakest link or deed is like judging the power of the ocean by one wave.’’
32) ‘’ I’ll never feel comfortable taking a strong drink, and I’ll never feel easy smoking a cigarette. I just don’t think those things are right for me.’’
33) ‘’ I was an only child, and mother was always right with me all my life.’’
34) ‘’ Man, I really like Vegas.’’
35) ‘’ Just because I managed to do a little something, I don’t want anyone back home to think I got the big head.’’
36) ‘’ Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.’’
37) ‘’ The army teaches boys to think like men.’’
38) ‘’ I knew by heart all the dialogue of James Dean’s films; I could watch Rebel Without a Cause a hundred times over.’’
39) ‘’ Where could I go but to the Lord?’’
40) ‘’ It’s human nature to gripe, but I’m going ahead and doing the best I can.’’
41) ‘’ The image is one thing and the human being is another. It’s very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.’’
42) ‘’ From the time I was a kid, I always knew something was going to happen to me. Didn’t know exactly what.”
43) ‘’ I’d just like to be treated like a regular customer.’’
44) ‘’ More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me.’’
45) ‘’ If you let your head get too big, it’ll break your neck.’’
46) ‘’ Whatever I will become will be what God has chosen for me.’’
47) ‘’ 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.’’
48) ‘’ Rhythm is something you either have or don’t have, but when you have it, you have it all over.’’
49) ‘’ 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.’’
50) ‘’ It’s very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.’’
51) ‘’ If you let your head get too big, it’ll break your neck.’’
52) ‘’ I didn’t copy my style from anybody.’’
53) ‘’ Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t going away.’’
54) ‘’ My philosophy of life is simple: I need someone to love, something to wait and do something.’’
55) ‘’ When your intelligence don’t tell you something ain’t right, your conscience gives you a tap you on the shoulder and says ‘hold on’. If it don’t, you’re a snake.’’
56) ‘’ When things go wrong, don’t go with them.’’
57) ‘’ Everything is so dreamy when you are young. After you grow up it kind of becomes – just real.’’
58) ‘’ Computers may out think us one day, but as long as people got feelings we’ll be better than they are.’’
59) ‘’ My fans want my shirt. They can have my shirt. They put it on my back.’’
60) ‘’ 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’’
61) ‘’ There are too many people that depend on me. I’m too obligated. I’m in too far to get out.’’
62) ‘’ Values are like fingerprints. Nobody’s are the same, but you leave ’em all over everything you do.’’
63) ‘’ It’s not how much you have that makes people look up to you, it’s who you are.’’
64) ‘’ I ain’t no saint, but I’ve tried never to do anything that would hurt my family or offend God.’’
65) ‘’ It’s more important to try to surround yourself with people who can give you a little happiness.’’
66) ‘’ I am not the King. Jesus Christ is the King. I’m just an entertainer.’’
67) ‘’ Rhythm is something you either have or don’t have, but when you have it, you have it all over.’’
68) ‘’ A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage’’
69) ‘’ Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.’’
70) ‘’ Memories, pressed between the pages of my mind. Memories, sweetened through the ages just like wine.’’
71) ‘’ Until we meet again, may God bless you as he has blessed me.’’
72) ‘’ Do something worth remembering.’’
73) ‘’ Take your troubles to the Chapel, get down on your knees and pray.’’
74) ‘’ Everybody comes from the same source. If you hate another human being, you’re hating part of yourself.’’
75) ‘’ When I was a child I was a dreamer.’’
76) ‘’ I lose myself in my singing.’’
77) ‘’ I’m so lucky to be in the position to give. It’s really a gift to give.’’
78) ‘’ I’ll never feel comfortable taking a strong drink, and I’ll never feel easy smoking a cigarette.’’
79) ‘’ I feel my temperature rising. Help me, I’m flaming, I must be a hundred and nine.’’
80) ‘’ I don’t want to be a tiger, tigers play too rough.’’
81) ‘’ I don’t want to be a lion, cause lions ain’t the kind you love up.’’
82) ‘’ 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.’’
83) ‘’ It’s all a big hoax, honey. I never wrote a song in my life.’’
84) ‘’ Viva Las Vegas with your neon flashin’ and your one arm bandits crashin’ all those hopes down the drain.’’
85) ‘’ When we kiss my heart’s on fire, burning with a strange desire.’’
86) ‘’ And I know that every time I kiss you, that your heart’s on fire, too.’’
87) ‘’ We’re trapped in a world that’s troubled with pain.’’
88) ‘’ A lot of people seem to think I started this business. But rock ‘n’ roll was here a long time before I came along.’’
89) ‘’ You look like an angel, walk like an angel, talk like an angel.’’
90) ‘’ Don’t criticize what you don’t understand, son. You never walked in that man’s shoes.’’
