Elvis Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

Do what’s right for you, as long as it doesn’t hurt anyone else.

The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.

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

The key to success is to be yourself. Don’t change who you are for anyone.

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

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

I’m never going to sing another song I don’t believe in.

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

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’m not trying to sound like nobody but what naturally comes out of me when I’m singing.

When things go wrong, don’t go with them.

I don’t think I’m bad for people. I think other people are bad for me.

The only thing worse than watching a bad movie is being in one.

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.

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

I believe in the Bible. I believe that all good things come from God. I don’t believe I’d sing the way I do if God hadn’t wanted me to.

We can’t build our dreams on suspicious minds.

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

When I got outta High School I was driving a truck. I was just a poor boy from Memphis, Memphis.

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

The first time that I appeared on stage, it scared me to death.

When we kiss, fever when you hold me tight, fever in the morning, fever all through the night.

Sad youth, what bitter disappointment grows from seeds of expectation sown in haste.

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

It’s not how much you have that makes people look up to you, it’s who you are.

Rock and roll music, or basically any kind of music, is supposed to be their art, and art is an important thing in life. Like eating, like breathing.

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.

I wanted to be a pilot, but I was too poor to be a pilot.

Man, I really like Vegas.

I was an overnight sensation, but I was an overnight sensation for 13 years.

For what is a man, what has he got? If not himself, then he has naught.

I just do what comes natural, honey. I think I’m very loyal to my fans.

When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.

If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I’m not frightened by anyone’s perception of me.

Don’t criticize what you don’t understand, son. You never walked in that man’s shoes.

I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the makeup made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born.

I ain’t trying to be first. I ain’t trying to be nobody’s man. I’m just trying to be me.

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

I became a singer because I couldn’t get a job as an actor.

You don’t buy a nice car and get rich, you get rich and buy a nice car.

The army teaches boys to think like men.

I don’t do karate. But I do know how to defend myself.

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

I like entertaining people. I really miss it.

I’ve learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.

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