Elvis Quotes

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 don’t know anything about music. In my line, you don’t have to.

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t goin’ away.

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

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

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

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.

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

I’m aiming for the stars, but sometimes I hit London.

I hope I didn’t bore you too much with my life story.

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.

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

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

I’m not trying to be Elvis. I’m James Brown.

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

Elvis Quotes part 2

Money honey, if I could find that monet honey. Money honey, if I could get that bottle of money honey, I will walk you home tonight alright!

A little less conversation, a little more action please.

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.

I like entertaining people because that’s what I was born for.

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.

When things get too heavy, just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man.

Elvis was the only man from Northeast Mississippi who could shake his hips and still be loved by rednecks, cops, and hippies.

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 next thing I knew, I was out of the service and making movies again. My first picture was called, GI Blues. I thought I was still in the army.

It’s not how much you have that makes people look up to you, it’s who you are.

Success is nothing without someone you love to share it with.

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.

I’m strictly for laughs, except when I’m singing, and then I want people to feel something.

My daddy was my best friend and greatest inspiration.

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

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

Am I lonely? Well, I guess I am. It’s not easy. What would be the purpose of it all?

I don’t want to be like anyone else. I want to be me.

The army teaches boys to think like men.

You don’t know what’s going on in anyone’s life but your own.

When I was a child, ladies and gentlemen, I was a dreamer. I read comic books, and I was the hero in the movie. So every dream I ever dreamed has come true a hundred times.

I learned how important it is to have fun while being successful.

All I can say is that I wasn’t brought up with standards of normalcy.

I don’t want to be a star. I want to be a legend.

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.

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 like to get out and get around sometimes when I’m not working.

I remember when I was a child… my mother said to me, ‘If you become a soldier, you’ll be a general. If you become a monk, you’ll be the pope.’ Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

It’s not about what you have. It’s about what you do with what you have.

I just know that God gave me a gift to sing and perform, and I just hope I can go on doing it.