Top 44 Elvis Presley Quotes

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

I hope I didn’t bore you too much with my life story.

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

I’ll stay in Memphis.

I learned how important it is to entertain people and give them a reason to come and watch you play.

The army teaches boys to think like men.

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.

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

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 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.

More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me.

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

Until we meet again, may God bless you as he has blessed me.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

I like entertaining people. I really miss it.

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

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

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

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

After a hard day of basic training, you could eat a rattlesnake.

I was an overnight sensation.

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

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.

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

Man, I really like Vegas.

Later on they send me to Hollywood. To make movies. It was all new to me. I was only 21 years old.

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

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

The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.

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.

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

Every time I think that I’m getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

The next thing I knew, I was out of the service and making movies again. My first picture was called, GI Blues. I thought I was still in the army.

I’d just like to be treated like a regular customer.

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

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

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.

Too much TV hurts movies.