Quotes About Elvis

There was a misconception about me when I started off because I had my hair greased up and I have some vague resemblance to the hillbilly gene pool that Elvis came from. People would say, 'You want to be Elvis' and I would say, 'No'.

I WANTED TO DO whatever I could for Al Gore. Clinton was in my age cohort, but Al was my generation. Bill was an Elvis fan. Al was a student of Bob Dylan.

Bruce Springsteen wrote, "Elvis was as big as the whole country itself, as big as the whole dream. He embodied the essence of it.

Elvis Presley's death was a turning point in news coverage;

I did a string of about six or seven Elvis movies, all in a row. He made all of those movies in two years' time. All of them bad. Don't quote me.

Elvis was the king. No doubt about it. People like myself, Mick Jagger and all the others only followed in his footsteps.

Elvis was a great guy. We'd just horse around together or go to see a movie. He drove me around Graceland in a golf cart. He was a fan of our music and was curious about how I sounded so black.

There was a chance for me to write one song for the section where Elvis sat in his black leather outfit and sang the old hits. At eight oclock the next morning I had written Memories.

With no pretensions of art, Viva Las Vegas, the new Elvis Presley vehicle, is about as pleasant and unimportant as a Banana Split.

The best came from my martial arts teacher, who also taught Elvis. He said, Your ego will get you killed.

I got an attitude, that's rude because I walked over Elvis' grave in some blue suede shoes.

But when knitters gather, we become incongruously conspicuous. We are a species that other people aren't used to seeing in flocks, like a cluster of Corgis, a dozen Elvis impersonators waiting for the elevator. Here

Steve Binder did the Elvis comeback special in 1968, you know. He did the Diana Ross special. He has won Emmy Awards. I think he's the premier, variety special man in America.

I met Elvis first in Las Vegas. I think I was appearing with Tom Jones and he came backstage to say hello to Tom or we went to his dressing room to say hello.

Elvis Presley invited me to Las Vegas for one night but we got on so well that I stayed for three.

Elvis deserves a lot of credit for bringing the blues to middle America, not the Vegas stuff. The early stuff, The Sun records, and the first few RCA records. He was wonderful, he had the power, the drive, and he was so dedicated to his music.

Wonder of wonders, the box had Elvis. Immediately the bar seemed a better place. She fed in coins and then punched the keys for Hound Dog. Too bad Elvis had never recorded one called Dickhead.

Elvis! Min shoved herself off the couch to shoo him away. Stay away from there. There's broken glass. He did that on purpose, David said, outraged. Yes, David, the cat is plotting against you. Min fished the base out of the water and glass shards and put it on the table. Then she went to get her wastebasket and began to put the glass pieces in it.

Just a whole different style, just a whole different way of going about an audience and a way about skating. And they are so brilliant in their own way, which is great, and that's what Brian was saying; is the styles are different, and it's the whole mentality.

Elvis was a major hero of mine. I was probably stupid enough to believe that having the same birthday as him actually meant something.

Because Elvis gave 'em cars, you think I'm cheap.

I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding Elvis.

Memphis both fueled Elvis's creative development and twisted his perspectives. Essentially, he and the town mirrored each other. They were both quiet and polite on the outside. Below the surface, they were ready to burst.

In some women Elvis saw a replica of his mother. He rushed to them, wanting to be absorbed within their boundaries as completely as with his mother. His courting rituals reenacted his and Gladys's lethal dance of enmeshment. His heart, worn throbbing on his sleeve, still belonged to Mama.