Elvis Presley Quotes

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

"Ah just act the way ah feel."

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

"If I could find a white man who had the Negro sound and the Negro feel, I could make a billion dollars."

"When I get married, it'll be no secret."

"Elvis was 13, the same age as my brother, and I was 16,'' says Tom, 73."

"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."

"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.'"

"People ask me where I got my singing style. I didn't copy my style from anybody . . . . Country music was always an influence on my kind of music."

"My mother and dad both loved to sing,"

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

"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 ain't no saint, but I have 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 believ"

"Look guys, if you're just going to stare at me, I'm going to bed!"

"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."

"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."

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

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

"I like entertaining people. I really miss it."