Elvis Quotes - page 6

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)
My older brother had a lot of Elvis on vinyl, and really, that was my first introduction to music during the Fifties. View quote
Kiki Dee
Elvis was rock'n'roll. He came from the poverty and the pain. View quote
Link Wray
I'm sure that Elvis was happy for me. I think he was the kind of guy that enjoyed other people's success, especially if he had something to do with it. View quote
Mac Davis
First time I saw Elvis was at the Lubbock County fairgrounds in Lubbock, Texas. He was on the back end of a truck. There was about 1500 screaming kids. View quote
Mac Davis
I didn't have a lot of communication with Elvis. You had to go through a barricade to get to Elvis. It was people hanging on every word, and I felt very uncomfortable a lot of times. View quote
Mac Davis
Elvis was just like a big old kid. It was like he never got past 19, I don't think, in a lotta ways. View quote
Mac Davis
Don't Cry Daddy is a pretty sad song. He got to the end of it and it was just real quiet and Elvis says, I'm gonna cut that someday for my daddy. And, by God, he did. He lived up to his word. View quote
Mac Davis
It's pretty amazing to me that my first hit record was an Elvis Presley record. View quote
Mac Davis
I had Elvis' number in my book and I never called it. View quote
Mac Davis
To some extent, the idea that rock 'n roll used to have this sort of free antediluvian identity, frolicking in the 1950s with Elvis or something, is totally wrong. It's insane. Elvis' relationship with Colonel Parker, his manager, was one of the most possibly corrupt, certainly lucrative, and intense business partnerships ever in rock n' roll. (Ann Powers)
Elvis was incredibly cooperative. He would try anything. He wasn't a diva, no prima donna. When it came to work, he was a workhorse. View quote
Jerry Leiber
I think that Vegas is one of the wildest places I've ever been to. You can look to your left and there's a drag queen getting married by Elvis, to the right there is some old bird sticking quarters into a slot machine for hours. View quote
Marsha Thomason
What happens with Mad Men, its like an Elvis Costello album; Ill watch it, and then I immediately have to watch it again. AMC will play it back-to-back. I have a tendency to yell at it when my wifes not around because if she catches me yelling at Mad Men, then it gets weird. View quote
Michael Weatherly
A lost of people recognize me and maybe will ask for an autograph, but it's nothing like if Elvis would've done something like that, 'cause he's so popular, or maybe The Beatles 'cause they stirred up a lot of action. View quote
Mickey Gilley
I knew about Elvis. Of course, everybody knew about him then. View quote
Minnie Pearl
Elvis said, Miss Minnie, do you think it would be out of order if I go up and speak to General Stewart? I've always been such a fan of his. So Elvis went up to speak to the Stewarts. View quote
Minnie Pearl
Elvis couldn't leave the hotel except under heavy guard. It was incredible how they went wild over him. View quote
Minnie Pearl
I think Elvis loved his fans - I think that's why they loved him and still love him. Fans are very conscious and sensitive to the fact that performers love them. View quote
Minnie Pearl
They were taking pictures and everything. When we got down off the plane, the minute Elvis made his appearance at the door of the plane, the screaming got even worse. View quote
Minnie Pearl
I think Elvis would be alive today, probably, if he had been allowed to mix and mingle with his fans. I think it was a great cross for him to bear that he couldn't get out and be with his fans. (Minnie Pearl)
Colonel Parker asked Henry and me to come to Elvis' suite and have breakfast. There were at least five policemen stationed up there. He was talking on the telephone. View quote
Minnie Pearl
I've been with certain stars; some are caring and pay attention to their fans and to their fellow performers and some are too busy. Elvis never seemed too busy. View quote
Minnie Pearl
I got married and basically forgot about Elvis. Then Speedway came. That was the most fun of all, to see him every day all those weeks. View quote
Nancy Sinatra
I always thought that Elvis could have been a great actor, and that he was put in a lot of unimportant movies when he could have done a lot of great ones. View quote
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