Elvis presley quotes

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.

NUTHIN' more fun than Rock n' Roll!

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

Gospel music is the purest thing there is on this earth.

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

A lot of people seem to think I started this business. But rock 'n' roll was here a long time before I came along. Nobody can sing that kind of music like colored people. Let's face it: I can't sing like Fats Domino can. I know that.

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

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.'

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

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine. Ain't nowhere else in the world where you can go from driving a truck to cadillac overnight

I just know that, right now, ... the biggest record selling business there is is rock and roll.

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

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

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

When you get down to the nitty gritty, isn't it a pity that in this big city not one little bitty man will admit that he could have been a little wrong.

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

I like pork chops and country ham, creamed potatoes, stuff like that. Redeye gravy. It comes from ham, bacon, stuff like that. It's the grease that you fry it in. I eat a lot of Jell-O. Fruit Jell-O.

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

Live each day, as if it we're your last. It's written in the stars, your destiny is cast.

When we kiss my heart's on fire, burning with a strange desire. And I know that every time I kiss you, that your heart's on fire, too.

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

To judge a man by his weakest link or deed is like judging the power of the ocean by one wave.

If you cry when you're in love, it sure ain't no disgrace.

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

Somebody does somethin' stupid, that's human. They don't stop when they see it's wrong, that's a fool.

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

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

Love is a thing you never can share.

Sharing money is what gives it its value.

I've come too far, and I don't know how to get back.

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

The greatest voice of all time.

Happiness is knowin' you've done a good job, whether it's professional or for another person.

I don't feel I'll live a long life. That's why I have to get what I can from every day.

Take your troubles to the Chapel, get down on your knees and pray. Your burdens will be lighter, and you'll surely find the way.

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

Take care of the fans and they will sure as hell take care of you.

There is a season for everything, patience will reward you and reveal all answers to your questions.' 'Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't going away.

Do something worth remembering.

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

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

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

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

Envy someone an' it pulls you down. Admire them and it builds you up. Which makes more sense?

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.

If you let your head get too big, it'll break your neck.

Animals don't hate, and we're supposed to be better than them.

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

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

I've had a pretty good lesson in human nature. It's more important to try to surround yourself with people who can give you a little happiness, because you only pass through this life once, Jack. You don't come back for an encore.

Gonna travel, gonna travel wild and free I'm gonna pack my bags because this great big world is calling me

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

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.

Rock and roll is a music, and why should a music contribute to ... juvenile delinquency? If people are going to be juvenile delinquents, they're going to be delinquents if they hear ... Mother Goose rhymes.

What's the good of reaching 90, if you waste 89?

I feel so alone sometimes. The night is quiet for me. I'd love to be able to sleep. I'll probably not rest. I have no need for all this. Help me, Lord.

I learned very early in life that: 'Without a song, the day would never end; without a friend, a man ain't got a friend; without a song, the road would never bend-without a song.' So I keep singing a song.

I'm not kidding myself. My voice alone is just an ordinary voice. What people come to see is how I use it. If I stand still while I'm singing, I'm dead, man. I might as well go back to driving a truck.

You only pass through this life once, you don't come back for an encore.

I ain't no saint, but I've tried never to do anything that would hurt my family or offend God...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.

I forgot to remember to forget.

Everybody comes from the same source. If you hate another human being, you're hating part of yourself.

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

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.

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

If one can't give what they have and share then they will always be empty

I love only one girl, one in every town.

Talent is being able to sell what you're feeling.

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

If you're smart, you'll think twice, when they start to sound off with advice.

I'm with a crowd but oh so alone.

There's no job too immense, when you got confidence.

I’m so lucky to be in the position to give. It’s really a gift to give.

Whatever it is, go back and do it again.

People think you're crazy if you talk about things they don't understand.

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.

I don't mind being controversial. Even Jesus wasn't loved in his day.

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.

Do what's right for you, so long as it don't hurt no one.

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

You've got to follow that dream, wherever that dream may lead.

Once I catch you and the kissing starts, a team of wild horses couldn't tear us apart.

The road to love is full of danger signs.

Love had surely made us all and hate would surely make us fall.

We do two shows a night for five weeks. A lotta times we'll go upstairs and sing until daylight - gospel songs. We grew up with it...It more or less puts your mind at ease. It does mine.

My philosophy of life is simple: I need someone to love, something to wait and do something.

A hard headed woman, a soft hearted man, been the cause of trouble ever since the world began.

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

Your kisses lift me higher...like the sweet song of a choir. You light my morning sky, with burning love.

The image is one thing and the human being is another...it's very hard to live up to an image.

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.

I never expected to be anybody important.

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.

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

A little less fight and a little more spark, close your mouth and open your heart.

Computers may out think us one day, but as long as people got feelings we'll be better than they are.

A little less conversation, a little more ACTION.

When I first saw you with your smile so tender, my heart was captured, my soul surrendered.

All I want is to know the truth, to know and experience God. I'm a searcher, that's what I'm all about.

Tomorrow will be too late, it's now or never.

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.

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 saw movies, and I was the hero in the movie. So every dream I ever dreamed, has come true a hundred times... I learned very early in life that "Without a song, the day would never end; without a song, a man ain't got a friend; without a song, the road would never bend - without a song." So I keep singing a song. Goodnight. Thank you.

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

I figure all any kid needs is hope and the feeling he or she belongs.

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

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

Before you abuse, criticize, and accuse walk a mile in my shoes.

Never wait for tomorrow, what if tomorrow never comes?

Friends are people you can talk to... without words when you have to.

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

I've spent a life time waiting for the right time, now that you're near, the time is here at last.

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

We're trapped in a world that's troubled with pain. As long as a man has the strength to dream, he can redeem his soul and fly.

If you wanna be loved, baby, you've got to love me, too. Oh yeah, cause I an't for no one side love affair.

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.

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

Fame and fortune, how empty they can be.

I think most people have a natural instinct to rebel.

You look like an angel, walk like an angel, talk like an angel. But I got wise, you're the devil in disguise.

The only kind of trouble I've ever been in is when I was stealing eggs when I was little. I think I know right from wrong.

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