Top 30 Elvis Presley Quotes

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

I was an overnight sensation.

Man, I really like Vegas.

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

Since the beginning, it was just the same. The only difference, the crowds are bigger now.

I have no use for bodyguards, but I have very specific use for two highly trained certified public accountants.

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

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

My movements, ma‘am, are all leg movements. I don’t do nothing with my body.

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.

I like entertaining people. I really miss it.

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

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

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t goin’ away.

I did the Ed Sullivan show four times. I did the Steve Allen show. I did the Jackie Gleason show.

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

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

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

I’ve never written a song in my life. It’s all a big hoax.

Those movies sure got me into a rut.

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

When I get married, it’ll be no secret.

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

Man, that record came out and was real big in Memphis. They started playing it, and it got real big. Don’t know why-the lyrics had no meaning.

I don’t think I’m bad for people. If I did think I was bad for people, I would go back to driving a truck, and I really mean this.

I’m so nervous. I’ve always been nervous, ever since I was a kid.

I’ll never make it, it will never happen, because they’re never going to hear me ’cause they’re screaming all the time.

Too much TV hurts movies.

I’m strictly for Stevenson. I don’t dig the intellectual bit, but I’m telling you, man, he knows the most.

The army teaches boys to think like men.