Elvis’s impact on popular culture extends beyond his music and films. He influenced fashion, style, and the way popular music was performed. His iconic fashion choices, including his signature jumpsuits, have become synonymous with his image.
Elvis’s legacy as a cultural icon is undeniable. His music continues to be celebrated and enjoyed by millions around the world, and his impact on the music industry and popular culture remains significant to this day. Elvis Presley’s untimely death on August 16, 1977, at the age of 42 only heightened his legendary status and solidified his place in music history.
Elvis Presley Quotes
Hello Elvis Presley fans we listed best Elvis Presley quotes about love, life, success, songs and more. You can also find Elvis Presley song lyrics quotes here and you can use these quotes in your Instagram captions or as iPhone wallpaper
“Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t goin’ away.”
“If you let your head get too big, it’ll break your neck”
“I’m not trying to be sexy. It’s just my way of expressing myself when I move around.”
“The first car I bought was the most beautiful car I’ve ever seen. It was secondhand, but I parked it outside of my hotel
the day I got it. I sat up all night, just lookin’ at it”
““Money honey, if you want to get along with me.
“All I want is to know the truth, to know and experience God. I’m a searcher, that’s what I’m all about.”
“Every time I think that I’m getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.”
“The army teaches boys to think like men.”
“Whatever I will become will be what God has chosen for me”
“It’s all a big hoax, honey. I never wrote a song in my life. I get one-third of the credit for recording it. It makes me look
smarter than I am. I’ve never even had an idea for a song. Just once, maybe”
“Blacko-oxy-tonic phosphate, it’s the latest scoop. But that’s alright girls, you can call it goop.”
“Fame and fortune, how empty they can be.”
“I don’t want to be a tiger, tigers play too rough. I don’t want to be a lion, cause lions ain’t the kind you love up.”
“What’s the good of reaching 90, if you waste 89?”
” I’m with a crowd but oh so alone.”
“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”
“Since the beginning, it was just the same. The only difference, the crowds are bigger now.”
“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 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.”
“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.”
“It’s human nature to gripe, but I’m going ahead and doing the best I can”
“Love had surely made us all and hate would surely make us fall.”
“NUTHIN’ more fun than Rock n’ Roll!””
“When I first saw you with your smile so tender, my heart was captured, my soul surrendered.”
“I’ll never feel comfortable taking a strong drink, and I’ll never feel easy smoking a cigarette. I just don’t think those things are right for me.”
“It’s not how much you have that makes people look up to you, it’s who you are.”
“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.”
“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 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.'”
“I’m not trying to be sexy. It’s just my way of expressing myself when I move around.”
“My philosophy of life is simple: I need someone to love, something to wait and do something”
“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.”
“Do something worth remembering.”
“Ma’am, I’m not tryin’ to be sexy. Ah didn’t have any clear idea of trying to sell sex. It’s just my way of expressin’ how I feel when I move around. It’s all leg movement. I don’t do nothin’ with my body”
“Once I catch you and the kissing starts, a team of wild horses couldn’t tear us apart.”
“Before you abuse, criticize, and accuse walk a mile in my shoes.”
“I think I have something tonight that’s not quite correct for evening wear. Blue suede shoes.”
“Memories, pressed between the pages of my mind. Memories, sweetened through the ages just like wine.”
“When we’re dancing it almost feels the same, I’ve got to stop myself from whispering your name.”
“My fans want my shirt. They can have my shirt. They put it on my back.””
“She touched my hand what a chill I got, her lips are like a volcano that’s hot”
“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.”
“I knew by heart all the dialogue of James Dean’s films; I could watch Rebel Without a Cause a hundred times over.”
“The walls have ears, ears that hear each little sound you make every time you stamp, throw a lamp.”
“I get tired of playing a guy who gets into a fight, then starts singing to the guy he’s just beat up.”
“[It’s] funny how things have a way of looking so much brighter in the daytime”
“Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine”
“Do the Clam, do the Clam, grab your barefoot baby by the hand.”
“I wore glasses, no music, and I won – I think it was – fifth place. I got a whipping the same day. My mother whipped me for something. Destroyed my ego completely.”
“Rhythm is something you either have or don’t have, but when you have it, you have it all over”
“The walls have ears, ears that hear each little sound you make every time you stamp, throw a lamp.”
“You’re just a natural beehive, filled with honey to the top. Well, I ain’t greedy baby, all I want is all you got.”
“I don’t like to be called Elvis the Pelvis. It’s one of the most childish expressions I’ve ever heard coming from an adult. But if they wanna call me that, there’s nothin’ I can do about it, so I just have to accept it.”
“Envy someone an’ it pulls you down. Admire them and it builds you up. Which makes more sense?”
“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.”
“If you cry when you’re in love, it sure ain’t no disgrace.”
““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”
“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.”
“Teenagers are my life and my triumph. I’d be nowhere without them.”
“Too much TV hurts movies”
“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”
“Gospel music is the purest thing there is on this earth.”
“Do the Clam, do the Clam, grab your barefoot baby by the hand.”
“Happiness is knowin’ you’ve done a good job, whether it’s professional or for another person….”
“Values are like fingerprints. Nobody’s are the same, but you leave ’em all over everything you do.”
“Animals don’t hate and we’re supposed to be better than them.”
“I don’t mind being controversial. Even Jesus wasn’t loved in his day””
“Make me feel at home, if you really care, scratch my back and run your pretty fingers through my hair.”
“Those people in New York are not gonna change me none”
“I like Brando’s acting … and James Dean … and Richard Widmark. Quite a few of ’em I like.”
“Sharing money is what gives it its value”
“Where could I go but to the Lord?”
“I feel my temperature rising. Help me, I’m flaming, I must be a hundred and nine”
“It’s not just self defense, it’s about…self control, body discipline, and mind discipline…and breath techniques. It involves yoga. It involves meditation. It’s an art, not a sport.”
“Computers may out think us one day, but as long as people got feelings we’ll be better than they are.”
“That’s why I hate to get started in these jam sessions. I’m always the last one to leave”
“The road to love is full of danger signs.”
“I am not the King. Jesus Christ is the King. I’m just an entertainer.”
“Viva Las Vegas with your neon flashin’ and your one arm bandits crashin’ all those hopes down the drain. Viva Las Vegas turnin’ day into nighttime, turnin night into daytime. If you see it once, you’ll never be the same again.”
“I learned how important it is to entertain people and give them a reason to come and watch you play.”
“When we’re dancing it almost feels the same, I’ve got to stop myself from whispering your name.”
“In this day and time you can’t even get sick; you are strung-out! Well by God, I’ll tell you something, friend: I have never been strung-out in my life, except on music!”
“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.”
“Take care of the fans and they will sure as hell take care of you.”
“Gonna travel, gonna travel wild and free I’m gonna pack my bags because this great big world is calling me”””);
quotes.add(“”“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”
“Until we meet again, may God bless you as he has blessed me.”
“I’ve spent a life time waiting for the right time, now that you’re near, the time is here at last.”
“I have no use for bodyguards, but I have very specific use for two highly trained certified public accountants.”
“To judge a man by his weakest link or deed is like judging the power of the ocean by one wave.”
“If you bring a friend into your love affair, that’s the end of your sweetheart that’s the end of your friend, that’s when your heartache begins.”
“Hey buddy, don’t you be no square, if you can’t find a partner use a wooden chair.”
“Wise men say only fools rush in. But I can’t help falling in love with you””
“When things go wrong, don’t go with them.”
“I’ve spent a life time waiting for the right time, now that you’re near, the time is here at last.”
“I go for all the belles, except the wedding kind.”
“Nine and nine makes fourteen, four and four makes nine. The clock is striking thirteen, I think I’ve lost my mind.”
“ad thing is, you can still love someone and be wrong for them.”
“Love is a thing you never can share.”
“When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream”
“After a hard day of basic training, you could eat a rattlesnake”
“I was an only child, and Mother was always right with me all my life. I used to get very angry at her when I was growing up-it’s a natural thing.”
““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.”
“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”
“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.”””
quotes.add(“”“I’ve never gotten over what they call stagefright. I go through it every show. I’m pretty concerned, I’m pretty much thinking about the show. I never get completely comfortable with it, and I don’t let the people around me get comfortable with it, in that I remind them that it’s a new crowd out there, it’s a new audience, and they haven’t seen us before. So it’s got to be like the first time we go on.”
“A little less fight and a little more spark, close your mouth and open your heart.”
“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.”
“If you talk in your sleep, don’t mention my name. If you walk in your sleep, forget where you came.”
“I’ve never gotten over what they call stagefright. I go through it every show. I’m pretty concerned, I’m pretty much thinking about the show. I never get completely comfortable with it, and I don’t let the people around me get comfortable with it, in that I remind them that it’s a new crowd out there, it’s a new audience, and they haven’t seen us before. So it’s got to be like the first time we go on.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I’m trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It’s so easy to get turned”
“When I got outta High School I was driving a truck. I was just a poor boy from Memphis, Memphis.”
