Shadie Presley Quotes

#1. When I got outta High School I was driving a truck. I was just a poor boy from Memphis, Memphis. #Quote by Elvis Presley

#2. I like to sing ballads the way Eddie Fisher does and the way Perry Como does. But the way I'm singing now is what makes the money. #Quote by Elvis Presley

#3. What's the good of reaching 90, if you waste 89? #Quote by Elvis Presley

#4. Presley brought an excitement to singing, in part because rock and roll was greeted as his invention, but for other reasons not so widely reflected on: Elvis Presley had the most beautiful singing voice of any human being on earth. #Quote by William F. Buckley, Jr.

#5. I like entertaining people. I really miss it. #Quote by Elvis Presley

#6. That's why I hate to get started in these jam sessions. I'm always the last one to leave. #Quote by Elvis Presley

#7. I don't sing to people. I sing for them. I told that once to Elvis Presley. He bought it. After that Elvis sang not to but for the audience. A subtle difference. #Quote by Tony Martin

#8. In 20 years I had sold more records for RCA than any artist except Elvis Presley. #Quote by Charley Pride

#9. Most singers have their idols. I remember Elvis Presley when I was a kid. When I was about sixteen, I always said I wanted to do 'Love Me Tender.' #Quote by Percy Sledge

#10. I learned how important it is to entertain people and give them a reason to come and watch you play. #Quote by Elvis Presley

#11. Elvis Presley had nothing to do with excellence, just myth. #Quote by Marlon Brando

#12. 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. #Quote by Elvis Presley

#13. It's hard for me to be happy because I'm always worried about something going awry or what could happen to screw it up. It's hard for me to sit and look around, going, 'Ah, I'm really happy.' I'm not that kind of person. #Quote by Lisa Marie Presley

#14. The only possibility in the United States for a humane society would be a revolution with Elvis Presley as leader. #Quote by Phil Ochs

#15. I don't feel I'll live a long life. That's why I have to get what I can from every day. #Quote by Elvis Presley

#16. I think Elvis Presley will never be solved #Quote by Nick Tosches

#17. Didja ever get one of them girls who just wants to watch the show? #Quote by Elvis Presley

#18. When making his music, he [Elvis Presley] had been the essence of cool, but in his movies he was often a self-parody embarrassing to watch. Colonel Parker, his manager, who had picked movie scrips for him, had served Elvis less well than the monk Rasputin had served Czar Nicholas and Alexandra. #Quote by Dean Koontz

#19. I'm just not interested in selling out to get on the charts and make people happy. #Quote by Lisa Marie Presley

#20. I think the best analogy for where we are right now is that America is Elvis Presley
the most beautiful, talented, rebellious nation in the history of Earth. And now, you're in your Vegas years. You've squeezed yourself into a white jumpsuit, you're wheezing your way through 'Love Me Tender' and you might be about to pass away bloated on the toilet. But you're still the King. #Quote by John Oliver

#21. People are quite shocked when you remind them that Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra never wrote a song that they recorded in their lives, as far as I know. #Quote by Robert Wyatt

#22. But I still do believe that there are useful things to say about Elvis Presley, including what his own ordinariness as a poor Southerner says about 20th-century hero-making. #Quote by John Shelton Reed

#23. The child needs a helping hand or he'll grow up to be an angry young man some day. #Quote by Elvis Presley

#24. When one of Lisa's baby teeth fell out here, the tooth fairy left her 50 cents. Another tooth fell out when she was with her father in Las Vegas, and that tooth fairy left her $5. When I told Elvis that 50 cents would be more in line, he laughed. He knew I was not criticizing him; how would Elvis Presley know the going rate for a tooth? #Quote by Priscilla Presley

#25. I'm trying to have my own thing, and I don't know if it's even possible. I didn't realize so many people actually think I'm trying to be like my dad. I read comments like 'She's no Elvis.' I'm not trying to be. I never set out to be. #Quote by Lisa Marie Presley

#26. I've been through so much in my life. I've seen so much. I know how fast things can change. I know someone can be here one minute and gone the next. #Quote by Lisa Marie Presley

#27. Were it not for Scientology, I would either be completely insane or dead by now, #Quote by Lisa Marie Presley

#28. If one can't give what they have and share then they will always be empty #Quote by Elvis Presley

#29. There's no room to Rhumba in a sports car. #Quote by Elvis Presley

#30. My philosophy of life is simple: I need someone to love, something to wait and do something. #Quote by Elvis Presley

#31. I saw three shrimp in the water, two were old and gray. I swam a little closer, and I heard the third one say, good-bye Mama. #Quote by Elvis Presley

#32. On my US tour maybe three out of 30 shows there was an Elvis impersonator in the crowd but that's it. I usually get younger fans, and those that come that are of an older generation end up walking out because it's too loud. #Quote by Lisa Marie Presley

#33. If Elvis Presley had been a bowhunter, he'd probably be alive today. #Quote by Ted Nugent

#34. Popular culture would never have achieved such a high degree of influence had it not been for the disappearance of family culture and Folk culture. With our social revolution, there would have been no cultural revolution. Without age0segregated high schools and the disappearance of the family economy, there would have been no Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson, or Katy Perry. #Quote by Kevin Swanson

#35. The army teaches boys to think like men. #Quote by Elvis Presley

#36. Also we Italians have something to Elvis Presley: to offer one of the rare occasions when we prefer to be Italian rather than American. #Quote by Indro Montanelli

#37. Friends are people you can talk to ... without words when you have to. #Quote by Elvis Presley

#38. Sad thing is, you can still love someone and be wrong for them. #Quote by Elvis Presley

#39. I'm so lucky to be in the position to give. It's really a gift to give. #Quote by Elvis Presley

#40. Hello, Presley residence."

"Mrs. Presley, this is Dallas Memorial. I have - "

Penny started to weep. "Oh my God, he's dead, isn't he?"

"No, no, Mrs. Presley. Quite the contrary. The doctor wanted you to know that we think your husband is waking up."

Penny's emotions shuddered to a stop. Not dead? Not dead after all? Waking up? What the hell was all this about? #Quote by Sharon Sala

#41. I'm not a star. I'll never be a Frank Sinatra or Elvis Presley or a Ray Charles. I'm just an imitator, man. I'm doing a very bad imitation on the bass of Jerry Jemmott, Bernard Odum, Jimmy Fielder, Jimmy Blanton, Igor Stravinsky, Jimi Hendrix, John Coltrane, James Brown, Charlie Parker ... the cats, man. I'm just backing up the cats. #Quote by Jaco Pastorius

#42. I'd rather go on hearing your lies, than to go on living without you. #Quote by Elvis Presley

#43. Like a river flows surely to the sea/Darling so it goes/Some things are meant to be/Take my hand, take my whole life too/For I can't help falling in love with you. #Quote by Elvis Presley

#44. He holds his guitar like a Tommy gun. #Quote by Elvis Presley

#45. When things go wrong, don't go with them. #Quote by Elvis Presley