Elvis Presley, born in 1935 in Tupelo, Mississippi, rose to fame as the “King of Rock and Roll” in the mid-1950s. His distinctive voice, energetic performances, and charismatic persona revolutionized popular music and culture. Hits like “Heartbreak Hotel” and “Hound Dog” propelled him to superstardom, pioneering the rock and roll genre by blending rockabilly, rhythm and blues, and country music. Despite his controversial personal life, including provocative performances and criticism, Presley’s influence remained unmatched. He starred in numerous films and released countless hit records, earning widespread acclaim and adoration. Presley’s legacy endures long after his death on August 16, 1977, at age 42, through his timeless music and status as a cultural icon, influencing generations of musicians and fans worldwide.

Elvis Presley Quotes

1. “Tomorrow will be too late, it’s now or never.”
— Elvis Presley

2. “When things go wrong, don’t go with them.”
— Elvis Presley

3. “A little less conversation, a little more action please.”
— Elvis Presley

4. “Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.”
— Elvis Presley

5. “Do something worth remembering.”
— Elvis Presley

6. “Wise men say only fools rush in. But I can’t help falling in love with you.”
— Elvis Presley

7. “Never wait for tomorrow, what if tomorrow never comes?”
— Elvis Presley

8. “Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t going away.”
— Elvis Presley

9. “To judge a man by his weakest link or deed is like judging the power of the ocean by one wave.”
— Elvis Presley

10. “People think you’re crazy if you talk about things they don’t understand.”
— Elvis Presley

11. “Before you abuse, criticize, and accuse walk a mile in my shoes.”
— Elvis Presley

12. “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

13. “Until we meet again, may God bless you as he has blessed me.”
— Elvis Presley

14. “Values are like fingerprints. Nobody’s are the same, but you leave ’em all over everything you do.”
— Elvis Presley

15. “I am not the King. Jesus Christ is the King. I’m just an entertainer.”
— Elvis Presley

16. “Sad thing is, you can still love someone and be wrong for them.”
— Elvis Presley

17. “You look like an angel, walk like an angel, talk like an angel. But I got wise, you’re the devil in disguise.”
— Elvis Presley

18. “Don’t criticize what you can’t understand, son. You never walked in that’s man shoes.”
— Elvis Presley

19. “Music should be something that makes you gotta move, inside or outside.”
— Elvis Presley

20. “You’ve got to follow that dream, wherever that dream may lead.”
— Elvis Presley

21. “We can’t build our dreams on suspicious minds.”
— Elvis Presley

22. “Love me tender, love me true, all my dreams fulfill. For my darling, I love you, and I always will.”
— Elvis Presley

23. “Whatever I will become will be what God has chosen for me.”
— Elvis Presley

24. “The image is one thing and the human being is another. It’s very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.”
— Elvis Presley

25. “You only pass through this life once, you don’t come back for an encore.”
— Elvis Presley

26. “A hard headed woman, a soft hearted man, been the cause of trouble ever since the world began.”
— Elvis Presley

27. “The road to love is full of danger signs.”
— Elvis Presley

28. “My philosophy of life is simple: I need someone to love, something to wait and do something.”
— Elvis Presley

29. “Live each day, as if it we’re your last. It’s written in the stars, your destiny is cast.”
— Elvis Presley

30. “If you let your head get too big, it’ll break your neck.”
— Elvis Presley

31. “Talent is being able to sell what you’re feeling.”
— Elvis Presley

32. “Everybody comes from the same source. If you hate another human being, you’re hating part of yourself.”
— Elvis Presley

33. “Sharing money is what gives it its value.”
— Elvis Presley

34. “It’s not how much you have that makes people look up to you, it’s who you are.”
— Elvis Presley

35. “I’m with a crowd but oh so alone.”
— Elvis Presley

36. “I forgot to remember to forget.”
— Elvis Presley

37. “I’m lonely like Adam and you’re evil like Eve.”
— Elvis Presley

38. “Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine. Ain’t nowhere else in the world where you can go from driving a truck to cadillac overnight.”
— Elvis Presley

39. “I love only one girl, one in every town.”
— Elvis Presley

40. “Rhythm is something you either have or don’t have, but when you have it, you have it all over.”
— Elvis Presley

41. “When I first saw you with your smile so tender, my heart was captured, my soul surrendered.”
— Elvis Presley

42. “Where could I go but to the Lord?”
— Elvis Presley

43. “I feel so alone sometimes. The night is quiet for me. I’d love to be able to sleep. I’ll probably not rest. I have no need for all this. Help me, Lord.”
— Elvis Presley

44. “I don’t feel I’ll live a long life. That’s why I have to get what I can from every day.”
— Elvis Presley

45. “I’m left, you’re right, and she’s gone. You’re right, and I’m left all alone.”
— Elvis Presley

46. “What’s the good of reaching 90, if you waste 89?”
— Elvis Presley

47. “Fame and fortune, how empty they can be.”
— Elvis Presley

48. “You can do anything, but lay off my blue suede shoes.”
— Elvis Presley

49. “Make me feel at home, if you really care, scratch my back and run your pretty fingers through my hair.”
— Elvis Presley

50. “If you bring a friend into your love affair, that’s the end of your sweetheart that’s the end of your friend, that’s when your heartache begins.”
— Elvis Presley

51. “Gonna travel, gonna travel wild and free I’m gonna pack my bags because this great big world is calling me.”
— Elvis Presley

52. “Don’t tell me baby you gotta go, I got the hifi high and the lights down low.”
— Elvis Presley

53. “If you talk in your sleep, don’t mention my name. If you walk in your sleep, forget where you came.”
— Elvis Presley

54. “We’re trapped in a world that’s troubled with pain. As long as a man has the strength to dream, he can redeem his soul and fly.”
— Elvis Presley

55. “The walls have ears, better think before you throw that shoe.”
— Elvis Presley

56. “I don’t know anything about music. In my line you don’t have to.”
— Elvis Presley

57. “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

58. “I don’t like people who are in politics for themselves and not for others. You want that, you can go into show business.”
— Elvis Presley

59. “You’re so square, baby, I don’t care.”
— Elvis Presley

60. “Do what’s right for you, so long as it don’t hurt no one.”
— Elvis Presley

61. “Memories, pressed between the pages of my mind. Memories, sweetened through the ages just like wine.”
— Elvis Presley

62. “Animals don’t hate, and we’re supposed to be better than them.”
— Elvis Presley

63. “Maybe I didn’t treat you Quite as good as I should have Maybe I didn’t love you Quite as often as I could have Little things I should have said and done I just never took the time You were always on my mind You were always on my mind.”
— Elvis Presley

64. “Life has taught me one big lesson, always keep the girlies guessing.”
— Elvis Presley

65. “I’m evil, my middle name is misery. Well, I’m evil, so don’t mess around with me.”
— Elvis Presley

66. “People ask me where I got my singing style. I didn’t copy my style from anybody.”
— Elvis Presley

67. “Love had surely made us all and hate would surely make us fall.”
— Elvis Presley

68. “Computers may out think us one day, but as long as people got feelings we’ll be better than they are.”
— Elvis Presley

69. “There’s no such thing as an original sin.”
— Elvis Presley

70. “I don’t mind being controversial. Even Jesus wasn’t loved in his day.”
— Elvis Presley

71. “I’m trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It’s so easy to get turned.”
— Elvis Presley

72. “When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.”
— Elvis Presley

73. “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

74. “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

75. “Samson told Delilah loud and clear, keep your cotton picken fingers out of my hair.”
— Elvis Presley

76. “I have no use for bodyguards, but I have very specific use for two highly trained certified public accountants.”
— Elvis Presley

77. “Nine and nine makes fourteen, four and four makes nine. The clock is striking thirteen, I think I’ve lost my mind.”
— Elvis Presley

78. “I’ve spent a life time waiting for the right time, now that you’re near, the time is here at last.”
— Elvis Presley

79. “On a cold and gray Chicago morning another little baby child is born in the ghetto, and his Mama cries.”
— Elvis Presley

80. “A little less fight and a little more spark, close your mouth and open your heart.”
— Elvis Presley

81. “I knew by heart all the dialogue of James Dean’s films; I could watch Rebel Without a Cause a hundred times over.”
— Elvis Presley

82. “All I want is to know the truth, to know and experience God. I’m a searcher, that’s what I’m all about.”
— Elvis Presley

83. “Love is a thing you never can share.”
— Elvis Presley

84. “Then came Act II, you seemed to change and acted strange, and why I’ll never know.”
— Elvis Presley

85. “The army teaches boys to think like men.”
— Elvis Presley

86. “Gospel music is the purest thing there is on this earth.”
— Elvis Presley

87. “Do the Clam, do the Clam, grab your barefoot baby by the hand.”
— Elvis Presley

88. “It’s human nature to gripe, but I’m going ahead and doing the best I can.”
— Elvis Presley

89. “The world is more alive at night; it’s like God isn’t looking.”
— Elvis Presley

90. “When I was a child 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 have ever dreamed has come true a thousand times.”
— Elvis Presley

91. “I don’t want to be a tiger, tigers play too rough. I don’t want to be a lion, cause lions ain’t the kind you love up.”
— Elvis Presley

92. “When we kiss my heart’s on fire, burning with a strange desire. And I know that every time I kiss you, that your heart’s on fire, too.”
— Elvis Presley

93. “All the stars will tell the story, of our love and all its glory. Let us make this night of magic, and make it a night of love.”
— Elvis Presley

94. “A lot of people seem to think I started this business. But rock ‘n’ roll was here a long time before I came along. Nobody can sing that kind of music like colored people. Let’s face it: I can’t sing like Fats Domino can. I know that.”
— Elvis Presley

95. “In this day and time you can’t even get sick; you are strung-out! Well by God, I’ll tell you something, friend: I have never been strung-out in my life, except on music!”
— Elvis Presley

96. “Love me tender, love me sweet, never let me go.”
— Elvis Presley

97. “He holds his guitar like a Tommy gun.”
— Elvis Presley

98. “The greatest voice of all time.”
— Elvis Presley

99. “Take care of the fans and they will sure as hell take care of you.”
— Elvis Presley

100. “There’s no job too immense, when you got confidence.”
— Elvis Presley

101. “Teenagers are my life and my triumph. I’d be nowhere without them.”
— Elvis Presley

102. “I’d rather go on hearing your lies, than to go on living without you.”
— Elvis Presley

103. “I’ll stay in Memphis.”
— Elvis Presley

104. “I go for all the belles, except the wedding kind.”
— Elvis Presley

105. “I look at you and wham, I’m head over heals. I guess that love is like a banana peel.”
— Elvis Presley

106. “The man who can sing when he hasn’t got a thing, he’s the king of the whole wide world.”
— Elvis Presley

107. “We’re the perfect combination. Colonel’s an old carny, and me, I’m off the wall.”
— Elvis Presley

108. “I don’t do any vulgar movements.”
— Elvis Presley

109. “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.”
— Elvis Presley

110. “The walls have ears, ears that hear each little sound you make every time you stamp, throw a lamp.”
— Elvis Presley

111. “I’ve come too far, and I don’t know how to get back.”
— Elvis Presley

112. “Ah just act the way ah feel.”
— Elvis Presley

113. “I can preach until your deaf and dumb, I’m in that soul saving army beating on that big bass drum.”
— Elvis Presley

114. “I think most people have a natural instinct to rebel.”
— Elvis Presley

115. “The only exercise I get is on the stage. If I didn’t get that, I’d get a little round around the tummy, as much as I eat.”
— Elvis Presley

116. “I like pork chops and country ham, creamed potatoes, stuff like that. Redeye gravy. It comes from ham, bacon, stuff like that. It’s the grease that you fry it in. I eat a lot of Jell-O. Fruit Jell-O.”
— Elvis Presley

117. “I was training to be an electrician. I suppose I got wired the wrong way round somewhere along the line.”
— Elvis Presley

118. “Number 47 said to number 3, you’re the cutest jailbird I ever did see.”
— Elvis Presley

119. “I thought that I was in heaven But I was sure surprised Heaven help me, I didn’t see The devil in your eyes You look like an angel Walk like an angel Talk like an angel But I got wise You’re the devil in disguise Oh yes you are The devil in disguise.”
— Elvis Presley

120. “I’ve had a pretty good lesson in human nature. It’s more important to try to surround yourself with people who can give you a little happiness, because you only pass through this life once, Jack. You don’t come back for an encore.”
— Elvis Presley

121. “I feel my temperature rising. Help me, I’m flaming, I must be a hundred and nine.”
— Elvis Presley

122. “I figure all any kid needs is hope and the feeling he or she belongs.”
— Elvis Presley

123. “I get sometimes; I get lonesome right in the middle of a crowd.”
— Elvis Presley

124. “Take your troubles to the Chapel, get down on your knees and pray. Your burdens will be lighter, and you’ll surely find the way.”
— Elvis Presley

125. “How can you lose something you never had, I tell myself when I’m feeling sad.”
— Elvis Presley

126. “Once I catch you and the kissing starts, a team of wild horses couldn’t tear us apart.”
— Elvis Presley

127. “The child needs a helping hand or he’ll grow up to be an angry young man some day.”
— Elvis Presley

128. “I wore glasses, no music, and I won – I think it was – fifth place. I got a whipping the same day. My mother whipped me for something. Destroyed my ego completely.”
— Elvis Presley

129. “I’m strictly for Stevenson. I don’t dig the intellectual bit, but I’m telling you, man, he knows the most.”
— Elvis Presley

130. “When I got outta High School I was driving a truck. I was just a poor boy from Memphis, Memphis.”
— Elvis Presley

131. “If you cry when you’re in love, it sure ain’t no disgrace.”
— Elvis Presley

132. “She touched my hand what a chill I got, her lips are like a volcano that’s hot.”
— Elvis Presley

133. “Don’t leave my embrace for here in my arms is your place.”
— Elvis Presley

134. “Since I was two years old, all I knew was gospel music. That music became such a part of my life it was as natural as dancing. A way to escape from the problems. And my way of release.”
— Elvis Presley

135. “The only thing worse than watching a bad movie is being in one.”
— Elvis Presley

136. “I’ve never written a song in my life. It’s all a big hoax.”
— Elvis Presley

137. “I’m so lucky to be in the position to give. It’s really a gift to give.”
— Elvis Presley

138. “Little sister, don’t you do what your big sister done.”
— Elvis Presley

139. “The Lord can give, and the Lord can take away. I might be herding sheep next year.”
— Elvis Presley

140. “After a hard day of basic training, you could eat a rattlesnake.”
— Elvis Presley

141. “Every time I think that I’m getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.”
— Elvis Presley

142. “I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.”
— Elvis Presley

143. “I can’t sing very well but I’d like to try.”
— Elvis Presley

144. “Her little sister will tell you she don’t live here anymore.”
— Elvis Presley

145. “When I get married, it’ll be no secret.”
— Elvis Presley

146. “I didn’t know that there were any radio stations in Nova Scotia.”
— Elvis Presley

147. “I like entertaining people. I really miss it.”
— Elvis Presley

148. “I’ve tried to lead a straight, clean life, not set any kind of a bad example.”
— Elvis Presley

149. “I miss my singing career very much.”
— Elvis Presley

150. “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

151. “I’m not trying to be sexy. It’s just my way of expressing myself when I move around.”
— Elvis Presley

152. “My fans want my shirt. They can have my shirt. They put it on my back.”
— Elvis Presley

153. “Hey buddy, don’t you be no square, if you can’t find a partner use a wooden chair.”
— Elvis Presley

154. “I was an only child, and Mother was always right with me all my life. I used to get very angry at her when I was growing up-it’s a natural thing.”
— Elvis Presley

155. “Those people in New York are not gonna change me none.”
— Elvis Presley

156. “I’m not kidding myself. My voice alone is just an ordinary voice. What people come to see is how I use it. If I stand still while I’m singing, I’m dead, man. I might as well go back to driving a truck.”
— Elvis Presley

157. “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

158. “In public, I like real conservative clothes, something that’s not too flashy. But onstage, I like ’em as flashy as you can get ’em.”
— Elvis Presley

159. “When you get down to the nitty gritty, isn’t it a pity that in this big city not one little bitty man will admit that he could have been a little wrong.”
— Elvis Presley

160. “You don’t like hot rod racing or driving late at night, you just want to park where it’s nice and dark.”
— Elvis Presley

161. “I hope I didn’t bore you too much with my life story.”
— Elvis Presley

162. “There are too many people that depend on me. I’m too obligated. I’m in too far to get out.”
— Elvis Presley

163. “I’ll be a fool or a wiseman, my darling, you hold the key. Anyway you want me, that’s how I will be.”
— Elvis Presley

164. “I’ll never feel comfortable taking a strong drink, and I’ll never feel easy smoking a cigarette. I just don’t think those things are right for me.”
— Elvis Presley

165. “I wiggle my shoulders, I shake my legs, I walk up and down the stage, I hop around on one foot. But I never bump and grind. Why, that’s vulgar. I’d never do anything vulgar before an audience. My mother would never allow it.”
— Elvis Presley

166. “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

167. “When we’re dancing it almost feels the same, I’ve got to stop myself from whispering your name.”
— Elvis Presley

168. “Blacko-oxy-tonic phosphate, it’s the latest scoop. But that’s alright girls, you can call it goop.”
— Elvis Presley

169. “If you wanna be loved, baby, you’ve got to love me, too. Oh yeah, cause I an’t for no one side love affair.”
— Elvis Presley

170. “C’mon, let’s get real, real gone.”
— Elvis Presley

171. “Just because I managed to do a little something, I don’t want anyone back home to think I got the big head.”
— Elvis Presley

172. “I want to entertain people. That’s my whole life. To my last breath.”
— Elvis Presley

173. “Everything is so dreamy when you are young. After you grow up it kind of becomes – just real.”
— Elvis Presley

174. “There’s no room to Rhumba in a sports car.”
— Elvis Presley

175. “Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.”
— Elvis Presley

176. “If one can’t give what they have and share then they will always be empty.”
— Elvis Presley

177. “Man, I was tame compared to what they do now. Are you kidding? I didn’t do anything but just jiggle.”
— Elvis Presley

178. “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.”
— Elvis Presley

179. “In my beach shack, we’ll be alone. In my beach shack, I’ll make you feel at home.”
— Elvis Presley

180. “I did the Ed Sullivan show four times. I did the Steve Allen show. I did the Jackie Gleason show.”
— Elvis Presley

181. “I’ll never make it, it will never happen, because they’re never going to hear me ’cause they’re screaming all the time.”
— Elvis Presley

182. “If you’re smart, you’ll think twice, when they start to sound off with advice.”
— Elvis Presley

183. “I was almost always true to you.”
— Elvis Presley

184. “Some guys fall in love with one girl, I gotta fall for two.”
— Elvis Presley

185. “You’re just a natural beehive, filled with honey to the top. Well, I ain’t greedy baby, all I want is all you got.”
— Elvis Presley

186. “Man, I really like Vegas.”
— Elvis Presley

187. “Didja ever get one of them girls who just wants to watch the show?”
— Elvis Presley

188. “I wouldn’t call girls a hobby. It’s a pastime.”
— Elvis Presley

189. “I get tired of singing to the guys I beat up in motion pictures.”
— Elvis Presley

190. “I’m so nervous. I’ve always been nervous, ever since I was a kid.”
— Elvis Presley

191. “The next thing I knew, I was out of the service and making movies again. My first picture was called, GI Blues. I thought I was still in the army.”
— Elvis Presley

192. “Look guys, if you’re just going to stare at me, I’m going to bed!”
— Elvis Presley

193. “Money honey, if you want to get along with me.”
— Elvis Presley

194. “Folks always look good in their coffins.”
— Elvis Presley

195. “My movements, ma’am, are all leg movements. I don’t do nothing with my body.”
— Elvis Presley

196. “Since the beginning, it was just the same. The only difference, the crowds are bigger now.”
— Elvis Presley

197. “The only kind of trouble I’ve ever been in is when I was stealing eggs when I was little. I think I know right from wrong.”
— Elvis Presley

198. “I was an overnight sensation.”
— Elvis Presley

199. “Singers come and go, but if you’re a good actor, you can last a long time.”
— Elvis Presley

200. “Man, that record came out and was real big in Memphis. They started playing it, and it got real big. Don’t know why-the lyrics had no meaning.”
— Elvis Presley