Elvis Presley Quotes
Elvis Aaron Presley was born on the 8th of January, 1935 in Tupelo, Mississippi, United States. He was an American singer, musician and actor. His music career began in 1954 at Memphis, Tennessee.
Elvis Presley is regarded as one of the most significant cultural icons of the 20th century and is often referred to as the “King of Rock and Roll” or simply “the King”. Since his death on August 16, 1977 at Graceland, Memphis, Tennessee, United States. Presley has remained one of the world’s most popular music icons.
Below, you will find a collection of famous Elvis Presley quotes and sayings.
70 Elvis Presley Quotes About Life, God & Love
“A little less fight and a little more spark, close your mouth and open your heart.” – Elvis Presley Quote
“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.” – Elvis Presley Quote
Wise men say only fools rush in. But I can’t help falling in love with you– Elvis Presley Quote
“It’s not how much you have that makes people look up to you, it’s who you are.”– Elvis Presley Quote
When I first saw you with your smile so tender, my heart was captured, my soul surrendered.– Elvis Presley Quote
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.– Elvis Presley Quote
“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.” – Elvis Presley Quote
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.– Elvis Presley Quote
When we ki*ss my heart’s on fire, burning with a strange desire. And I know that every time I ki*ss you, that your heart’s on fire, too.– Elvis Presley Quote
Before you abuse, criticize, and accuse walk a mile in my shoes.– Elvis Presley Quote
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.– Elvis Presley Quote
Memories, pressed between the pages of my mind. Memories, sweetened through the ages just like wine.– Elvis Presley Quote
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.– Elvis Presley Quote
Love had surely made us all and hate would surely make us fall.– Elvis Presley Quote
[It’s] funny how things have a way of looking so much brighter in the daytime.– Elvis Presley Quote
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.’– Elvis Presley Quote
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.– Elvis Presley Quote
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.– Elvis Presley Quote
That’s why I hate to get started in these jam sessions. I’m always the last one to leave.– Elvis Presley Quote
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.– Elvis Presley Quote
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.– Elvis Presley Quote
Money honey, if you want to get along with me.– Elvis Presley Quote
Teenagers are my life and my triumph. I’d be nowhere without them.– Elvis Presley Quote
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.– Elvis Presley Quote
I go for all the belles, except the wedding kind.– Elvis Presley Quote
My philosophy of life is simple: I need someone to love, something to wait and do something.– Elvis Presley Quote
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.– Elvis Presley Quote
The road to love is full of danger signs.– Elvis Presley Quote
Animals don’t hate and we’re supposed to be better than them.– Elvis Presley Quote
“I’m trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It’s so easy to get turned.”– Elvis Presley Quote
“When I got outta High School I was driving a truck. I was just a poor boy from Memphis, Memphis. ”– Elvis Presley Quote
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.– Elvis Presley Quote
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!– Elvis Presley Quote
“Values are like fingerprints. Nobody’s are the same, but you leave ’em all over everything you do.”– Elvis Presley Quote
“I learned how important it is to entertain people and give them a reason to come and watch you play.”– Elvis Presley Quote
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.– Elvis Presley Quote
“I feel my temperature rising. Help me, I’m flaming, I must be a hundred and nine”– Elvis Presley Quote
“When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.”– Elvis Presley Quote
“Rhythm is something you either have or don’t have, but when you have it, you have it all over.”– Elvis Presley Quote
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.– Elvis Presley Quote
“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.”– Elvis Presley Quote
All I want is to know the truth, to know and experience God. I’m a searcher, that’s what I’m all about.– Elvis Presley Quote
“I have no use for bodyguards, but I have very specific use for two highly trained certified public accountants.”– Elvis Presley Quote
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.– Elvis Presley Quote
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.– Elvis Presley Quote
If you talk in your sleep, don’t mention my name. If you walk in your sleep, forget where you came.– Elvis Presley Quote
I’ve spent a life time waiting for the right time, now that you’re near, the time is here at last.– Elvis Presley Quote
The walls have ears, ears that hear each little sound you make every time you stamp, throw a lamp.– Elvis Presley Quote
She touched my hand what a chill I got, her lips are like a volcano that’s hot.– Elvis Presley Quote
Envy someone an’ it pulls you down. Admire them and it builds you up. Which makes more sense?– Elvis Presley Quote
Love is a thing you never can share.– Elvis Presley Quote
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.– Elvis Presley Quote
What’s the good of reaching 90, if you waste 89?– Elvis Presley Quote
Computers may out think us one day, but as long as people got feelings we’ll be better than they are.– Elvis Presley Quote
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.– Elvis Presley Quote
Gonna travel, gonna travel wild and free I’m gonna pack my bags because this great big world is calling me– Elvis Presley Quote
I’m not trying to be s3xy. It’s just my way of expressing myself when I move around.– Elvis Presley Quote
Fame and fortune, how empty they can be.– Elvis Presley Quote
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.– Elvis Presley Quote
Nine and nine makes fourteen, four and four makes nine. The clock is striking thirteen, I think I’ve lost my mind.– Elvis Presley Quote
Make me feel at home, if you really care, scratch my back and run your pretty fingers through my hair.– Elvis Presley Quote
To judge a man by his weakest link or deed is like judging the power of the ocean by one wave.– Elvis Presley Quote
“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.”– Elvis Presley Quote
Hey buddy, don’t you be no square, if you can’t find a partner use a wooden chair.– Elvis Presley Quote
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.– Elvis Presley Quote
Happiness is knowin’ you’ve done a good job, whether it’s professional or for another person….– Elvis Presley Quote
Since the beginning, it was just the same. The only difference, the crowds are bigger now.– Elvis Presley Quote
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.”– Elvis Presley Quote
“Every time I think that I’m getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.”– Elvis Presley Quote
“I would beg and steal just to feel your heart beating close to mine.”– Elvis Presley Quote
20 Short Elvis Presley Quotes
Where could I go but to the Lord?– Elvis Presley Quote
“Whatever I will become will be what God has chosen for me.”– Elvis Presley Quote
“If you cry when you’re in love, it sure ain’t no disgrace.”– Elvis Presley Quote
“If you let your head get too big, it’ll break your neck.”– Elvis Presley Quote
“After a hard day of basic training, you could eat a rattlesnake.”– Elvis Presley Quote
I don’t mind being controversial. Even Jesus wasn’t loved in his day.– Elvis Presley Quote
NUTHIN’ more fun than Rock n’ Roll!– Elvis Presley Quote
“The army teaches boys to think like men.”– Elvis Presley Quote
I am not the King. Jesus Christ is the King. I’m just an entertainer.– Elvis Presley Quote
“Sad thing is, you can still love someone and be wrong for them.”– Elvis Presley Quote
“Do something worth remembering.”– Elvis Presley Quote
Do the Clam, do the Clam, grab your barefoot baby by the hand.– Elvis Presley Quote
Those people in New York are not gonna change me none– Elvis Presley Quote
Gospel music is the purest thing there is on this earth.– Elvis Presley Quote
“When things go wrong, don’t go with them.”– Elvis Presley Quote
“It’s human nature to gripe, but I’m going ahead and doing the best I can.”– Elvis Presley Quote
Sharing money is what gives it its value.– Elvis Presley Quote
“Until we meet again, may God bless you as he has blessed me.”– Elvis Presley Quote
“Don’t leave my embrace for here in my arms is your place.” – Elvis Presley Quote
“Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.”– Elvis Presley Quote