Elvis Quotes - page 5

What I like about Elvis is the same thing I like about James Brown, Michael Jackson, Prince. These guys, back in the day, there was no smoke and mirrors. It was just raw talent. They would step out onstage and command an audience. (Bruno Mars)
I'm a big fan of Elvis, man. I got 'Heartbreak Hotel' tattooed on my chest. View quote
Ed Westwick
It's like I say. We used to all sit around ... me and Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley and Carl Perkins and we'd talk about things. If one of us had a hit, we'd say: "That's fabulous. It's a damn good song." But now, the people that I meet are so damn big headed ... it's not music any more, it's business. But now ... I've met Jim Morrison of the Doors ... a fantastic person. Really a nice guy, and he takes me back to the people I knew in the old days. Listen, a star is not a star. We never considered ourselves that. I'm always pushing, man, to get something better. And that's the same with Jim and fellas like John Sebastian. View quote
Gene Vincent
To me, John Lennon and Elvis Presley were punks, because they made music that evoked those emotions in people. View quote
Joey Ramone
I'm not Elvis. I don't get chased by paparazzi. View quote
Albert Brooks
Elvis Presley's music never meant anything to me. Mambo was the music I loved - it spoke to me. View quote
Arne Glimcher
There's this Bruno Mars guy. I met him in Hawaii when was doing Elvis imitations at the age of about five or six years old. There's a lot of old school in him. He's got a depth that I just love. View quote
Bill Medley
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. View quote
Black Francis
Elvis might have compromised his musical style a bit towards the end, but that doesn't mean that artists from the rock n' roll/folk-roots culture - of which he was not really a part - shouldn't get better as they get older, like the great jazz or blues artists. View quote
Bonnie Raitt
I was nuts about Elvis, like every girl in America. View quote
Brenda Lee
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'. (Chris Isaak)
I feel like Elvis. Only alive. View quote
David Hasselhoff
I look good, but I probably have the insides of Elvis. View quote
David Hasselhoff
The album is a definite departure. I haven't written original material before, except for one song on my first album, but Elvis and I did six songs together on this one. View quote
Diana Krall
Elvis wore a halo. Otis Redding did, too. You knew you were playing with a star when you played with them. View quote
Donald Dunn
When I was a kid, I used to look in the mirror and pretend I was Elvis. View quote
Donald Dunn
I'm very self-conscious having my picture taken, so I clown around. My driver's license photo looks like a blonde Elvis. View quote
Emily Procter
Elvis Presley, The Everly Brothers, and a lot of American artists were my greatest influences. View quote
Gordon Waller
A lot has been written and said about why he was so great, but I think the best way to appreciate his greatness is just to go back and play some of the old records. Time has a way of being very unkind to old records, but Elvis' keep getting better and better. View quote
Huey Lewis
As far as I'm concerned the last good man went when Elvis died. View quote
Jennifer Crusie
When Elvis made his mass-media debut on 'The Ed Sullivan Show' - his notorious gyrations filmed only from the waist up - I fell off the family chaise longue with delight. (John Lahr)
Oh, I think country has changed tremendously. I think country has totally changed. Country music when I was a kid was Hank Williams. If you put Hank and Elvis together, there wasn't that musical difference. But as the Beatles showed up and the English invasion, I think country music got pretty far away from rock n' roll. View quote
John Mellencamp
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. View quote
John Shelton Reed
Music and fashion have had a kind of incestuous relationship since the Fifties. It started with people like Elvis Presley and pop icons like James Dean. Then it exploded in the MTV days. Now, with the Internet, it's instantaneous. View quote
John Varvatos
My favorite artists have always been Elvis and The Beatles and they still are! View quote
Johnny Ramone