Quotes from Elvis Presley

I don't do any vulgar movements.

Just because I managed to do a little something, I don't want anyone back home to think I got the big head.

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

Man, I was tame compared to what they do now. Are you kidding? I didn't do anything but just jiggle.

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.

Man, I was tame compared to what they do now.

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

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

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.

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

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

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!

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

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

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.

I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.

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

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

The child needs a helping hand or he'll grow up to be an angry young man some day.

Never wait for tomorrow, what if tomorrow never comes?

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

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

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

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