Presley Quotes

God's the final judge for Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash too. That's solely in the hands of God.
Johnny Cash

God, Judge, Hands

And if there's any hope for America, it lies in a revolution, and if there's any hope for a revolution in America, it lies in getting Elvis Presley to become Che Guevara.
Phil Ochs

Hope, Revolution, America

I guess I thought I was Elvis Presley but I'll tell ya something. All Elvis did was stand on a stage and play a guitar. He never fell off on that pavement at no 80 mph.
Evel Knievel

Thought, Play, Guitar

To me, John Lennon and Elvis Presley were punks, because they made music that evoked those emotions in people.
Joey Ramone

Music, Made, Emotions

Every performer who ever performed in rock and roll or even close to it is lying if they tell you that they weren't influenced in some way or another by Elvis Presley. He turned the world around.
Mac Davis

Rock, Around, Another

When I heard Elvis Presley, then I knew I had to do music. Music is my god, and is the only love that has never left me. It has always been there and is my best friend.
Ville Valo

Love, Music, God

Being Elvis Presley's daughter is a whole lot of pressure. It's been a constant burden in my life.
Lisa Marie Presley

Life, Whole, Pressure

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.
Robert Wyatt

Far, Song, Lives

One gets the impression that Elvis Presley does what his business advisors think will be most profitable. My advice to them: Put Elvis Presley in the studio with a bunch of good, contemporary rockers, lock the studio up, and tell him he can't come out until he's done made an album that rocks from beginning to end.
Jon Landau

Good, Business, End

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

Artist, Except, Records

I saw an Elvis Presley movie Jailhouse Rock, where he gets out of jail and makes his own records and takes them to the radio stations himself. And then, he puts records in the store. After seeing that, I made records an put them in stores.
Bobby Vinton

Rock, Made, After

I was obsessed with Elvis Presley when I was little.
Gina Gershon

Obsessed, Elvis

I'd been to Memphis before, but we stayed out of Memphis early on in the late 70s for obvious reasons. People were very sensitive about Elvis Presley, and my stage name obviously would be provocative to some people in that area at that time.
Elvis Costello

Time, Before, Name

I like visual images and there are certainly other bands that have strong visual images going all the way back to Elvis Presley, but it's kind of like that's never really been my bag. Probably because I'm too shy.
Frank Black

Strong, Shy, Bands

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.
John Shelton Reed

Poor, Useful, Says

I know I'm not going to sing like Aretha Franklin or Elvis Presley or any of those people.
George Thorogood

Sing, Elvis, Franklin

I love singing some Johnny Cash, which is interesting because it's in a guy's key; I love singing Elvis Presley.
Samantha Barks

Love, Guy, Singing

It's pretty amazing to me that my first hit record was an Elvis Presley record.
Mac Davis

Amazing, Pretty, Hit

Elvis Presley, you can't define him in a couple of sentences, but he was a country boy and he was very respectful.
Jerry Leiber

Him, Country, Couple

When I was in high school in the '50s you were supposed to be an Elvis Presley, a James Dean, a Marlon Brando or a Kingston Trio type in a button-down shirt headed for the fraternities at Stanford or Cal.
Robert Hass

School, High, Supposed

Elvis Presley, The Everly Brothers, and a lot of American artists were my greatest influences.
Gordon Waller

Greatest, American, Artists

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.
Tony Martin

After, Once, Difference

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