Elvis Presley Quotes About Songs

Quotes about: Songs

• 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

  Song, Hurt, Believe

• 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

  Song, Feet, People

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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  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

  Song, Live Concerts, Crowds

  "Paranoia & Power : Fear & Fame of Entertainment Icons" by Gene N Landrum, (p. 60), 2007.

• 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

  Song, Moving, Yelling

  Interview Magazine (March/April 1972); later quoted in Jane Ellen Wayne "The Leading Men of MGM" (p. 406), February 17, 2005.

• I learned very early in life that: 'Without a song, the day would never end; without a friend, a man ain't got a friend; without a song, the road would never bend-without a song.' So I keep singing a song.

  Elvis Presley

  Music, Song, Men

  1971 Acceptance speech,Ten Outstanding Men of theYear Awards,16 Jan.

• 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

  Inspirational, Movie, Dream

  Elvis Presley's acceptance speech for the 1970 Ten Outstanding Young Men of the Nation Award (January 16, 1971); later quoted in Jerry Osborne "Elvis - Word for Word: What He Said, Exactly As He Said It (p. 188), August 1999.

• Gonna travel, gonna travel wild and free
  I'm gonna pack my bags because this great big world is calling me

  Elvis Presley

  Song, Travel, Calling

  Song: Harem Holiday

• Man, I was tame compared to what they do now. Are you kidding? I didn't do anything but just jiggle.

  Elvis Presley

  Song, Men

  Elvis Presley (2007). “Elvis: Inspirations”, p.13, Andrews McMeel Publishing

• When I first saw you with your smile so tender, my heart was captured, my soul surrendered.

  Elvis Presley

  Song, Heart, Soul

  Song: It's Now or Never

• I've never written a song in my life. It's all a big hoax.

  Elvis Presley

  Song, Hoaxes, Bigs

• 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, mybe.

  Elvis Presley

  Song, Real, Humor

• Since my baby left me, I've found a new place to dwell, down at the end of Lonely Street at Heartbreak Hotel.

  Elvis Presley

  Song, Baby, Lonely

• Your kisses lift me higher...like the sweet song of a choir. You light my morning sky, with burning love.

  Elvis Presley

  Song, Sweet, Morning

  Song: Burning Love

• I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were.

  Elvis Presley

  Song, Musical, Hollywood

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• 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

  Song, Night, Two

• I'm never going to sing another song I don't believe in. I'm never going to make another picture I don't believe in.

  Elvis Presley

  Song, Believe, Don't Believe

• 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

  Song, Thinking, People

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