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When we were kids growing up in Liverpool, all we ever wanted to be was Elvis Presley.
I'm just a singer, Elvis was the embodiment of the whole American culture.
When making his music, he [Elvis Presley] had been the essence of cool, but in his movies he was often a self-parody embarrassing to watch. Colonel Parker, his manager, who had picked movie scrips for him, had served Elvis less well than the monk Rasputin had served Czar Nicholas and Alexandra.
Elvis Presley is the main founding father of rock music. He was an unheralded genius behind a new music that changed western civilization for all time.
Elvis is my religion. But for him, I'd be selling encyclopedias right now.
Elvis Presley was the first and the best. He is my favorite of all time.
The first thing I think of when I think about coming to Las Vegas and playing is always Elvis; its always the first thing on my mind.
Elvis was a giant and influenced everyone in the business.
I think Elvis is the sexiest man to ever walk the earth, I love him.
Without Elvis none of us could have made it.
No one, but no one, is equal, or ever will be. Elvis was and is supreme.
I was an Elvis freak. That's all I listened to growing up.
Elvis has left the building to climb up that heavenly stair. So what if he looks like a wart-hog in heat?
Elvis was the firstest with the mostest.
This is Graceland. Home of the most famous musician in the world."
"Michael Jackson lived here?"
"No, dummy," Carter said. "Elvis Presley.
I feel like Elvis. Only alive.
Elvis Presley had nothing to do with excellence, just myth.
I hope there's a God, I know there's an Elvis.
I was nuts about Elvis, like every girl in America.
Elvis is the greatest cultural force in the twentieth century. He introduced the beat to everything, music, language, clothes, it's a whole new social revolution - the 60's comes from it.
I remember old Elvis when he forgot to remember to forget.
Elvis is iconic; a lot of performers today look to that for inspiration.
And Sandy Martindale ... dated Elvis before the rhinestone jumpsuits and the drugs, when he was sharp and cool and jagged, like porcelain that has been hurled against a wall ...
It's rare when an artist's talent can touch an entire generation of people. It's even rarer when that same influence affects several generations. Elvis made an imprint on the world of pop music unequaled by any other single performer.
If you look back to a picture of me when I was 12 years old, you will probably see me in a leather jacket trying to look like Elvis!
I haven't heard from Elvis since his daughter married Michael Jackson. I think it killed him.
Every time Elvis sings, he makes a bargain with the devil -- just like Captain Ahab in MOBY DICK!
I never felt more loved than when I was with Elvis.
Everything they say about Elvis today is true. He was just one great guy. He wasn't jealous of anyone. I would say Elvis was really someone special when you add it all up.
Presley brought an excitement to singing, in part because rock and roll was greeted as his invention, but for other reasons not so widely reflected on: Elvis Presley had the most beautiful singing voice of any human being on earth.
Eventually everyone has to die, except Elvis.
Elvis was, at least the times I was around him, Elvis was a practical joker. He was always, had some little mischievous something going.
You know my daughter, Presley?"
He nods. "Sure. Cute kid, hot mom. Unfortunate name.
Elvis couldn't leave the hotel except under heavy guard. It was incredible how they went wild over him.
When I saw Elvis on television, I just fell in love with him completely. As a singer, I want to be able to relate to an audience like this man does. Of course, nobody can - he was the best there ever was.
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.
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.
Elvis is not so difficult as Johnny Cash because his voice is so distinctive. If you try to copy Johnny Cash, it's just going to sound dumb.
The things Elvis has done during his career and the things he has contributed and created are really something very important to the music business.
What strikes me as funny about Elvis is that all the impersonators choose to do the Vegas Elvis, not the young, cool guy ...
And it's not the real Elvis you need to resemble, it's the imitation Elvises. Not hard to look like one of them.
I have a very long and beautiful love affair with Elvis Presley. I own every record he ever made, so I have about 150, almost 200 records of his. So much that I haven't even listened to all of them. I see an Elvis record that I don't have, and I'll buy it and put it in my collection.
I was an original Elvis fan. He was the voice of my generation. I was listening to him on the radio when he released his great Sun records with Scotty Moore on electric guitar and Bill Black on bass.
When I was a kid, I used to look in the mirror and pretend I was Elvis.
Elvis had animal magnetism, he was even sexy to the guys, I can't imagine what the chicks used to think.
Elvis a fight the dying light, Johnny Ray he's always crying.
It would be interesting if Elvis were reincarnated as an Elvis impersonator.
I wanted to say to Elvis Presley and the country that this is a real decent, fine boy, and wherever you go, Elvis, we want to say we've never had a pleasanter experience on our show with a big name than we've had with you.
Tonight, I would like to pay tribute to the greatest entertainer of all time, Mr. Elvis Presley. Elvis was Las Vegas. And if it wasn't for him, so many performers like myself would not have the chance to do what we do in this town. He really was the king.
ELVIS PRESLEY was bigger than life. His success was documented and laid out for him. He came to the first show I had in Memphis, and it was very nice. He sort of treated me like an equal, because we were both fresh in the business. We got to be great friends and kindred souls.
I met Elvis in your woods one night," Terry said. One of the EMTs had given him a shot, and I thought it was beginning to work. "I knew I was nuts then. He was telling me how much he liked cats. I told him I was a dog person, myself.
Elvis lived here until thirteen and nobody can really take that from us!
Elvis is English, and climbs the hills. Can't tell the bullshit from the lies.
When I used to go to Elvis's house was always a nightmare trying to get into the house because of so many fans outside the gate and he really couldn't go anywhere without sneaking in or doing something because people just wanted to be around him and to be with him.
Elvis was rock'n'roll. He came from the poverty and the pain.
I wouldn't have Elvis Presley on my show at any time.
Elvis was the only man from Northeast Mississippi who could shake his hips and still be loved by rednecks, cops, and hippies.
Elvis Presley and Puccini shall return.
The parallels between Elvis and Michael Jackson as incredible artists is evident. But I think that where Michael Jackson even transcends Elvis Presley.
Music journalists love Elvis Costello and hate me because they look like Elvis Costello
Woss the matter with you?" asked Big Ted, irritably. "Go on. Press 'D.' Elvis Presley died in 1976."
I DON'T CARE WHAT IT SAYS, said the tall biker in the helmet, I NEVER LAID A FINGER ON HIM.
They say Elvis is dead. I say, no, you're looking at him. Elvis isn't dead; he just changed color.
It was Elvis that got me interested in music. I've been an Elvis fan since I was a kid.
The world does not need a 'gay Elvis', for the original, with his black leather suit, pomaded pompadour, come-fuck-me eyes and radiant narcissism, was quite queer enough
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.
I don't think there is a musician today that hasn't been affected by Elvis' music. His definitive years - 1954-57 - can only be described as rock's cornerstone. He was the original cool.
One man's Mona Lisa is another man's velvet Elvis.
Elvis and I were very good friends. We were such good friends that, on the day that he passed, I was the first one his father called, to let me know what had happened.
Most performers reinvent themselves. Madonna, Michael Jackson, P. Diddy. They reinvent themselves into different kinds of images. Elvis [Presley] was always himself, an original, and he never tried to be anything but that.
I think Elvis Presley will never be solved
Hen I first heard Elvis' voice, I knew that I wasn't going to work for anybody ... hearing him for the first time was like busting out of jail
Elvis, he was unique. And he loved the blues, it was a pity he didn't do more.
Elvis epitomised America, and for that we shall be eternally grateful. There will never be anyone else like him. Let's all rejoice in his music.
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.
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. Talk about awesome.
Everyone in rock 'n roll including myself was touched by Elvis's spirit, I was, and always will be a fan.
Two thousand years from now they'll still be hearing about Elvis Presley.
I'm an Elvis fan because it was Elvis who really got me out of Liverpool.
I look good, but I probably have the insides of Elvis.
Well, as an artist, I think that Elvis's generosity to me he always talked very highly about me, he always spoke very highly about my work and singing and my writing.
As the lad himself might say, cut my legs off and call me Shorty! Elvis Presley can act ... Acting is his assignment in this shrewdly upholstered showcase, and he does it.
Mr. Presley has no discernible singing ability.
Elvis was sincere, and he was - he was so loyal. And he was so homespun. He loved his mother, he loved America. You know, he loved his fellow man. He had a great humanitarian philanthropic sense.
Nothing really affected me until Elvis.
Stalking the Angel
[Joe]"I could off anybody in this place five times over."
[Elvis]"Could you off someone and get away with you here?"
[Joe]Head shake. "I'm too good even for me.
Elvis was a major hero of mine. I was probably stupid enough to believe that having the same birthday as him actually meant something.
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.
Never trust a man who doesn't like Elvis.
I knew about Elvis. Of course, everybody knew about him then.
He was the yin to my yang, the sparkly jumpsuit to my Elvis.
I made up my mind that I was going to be just like Elvis. It never occurred to me that Elvis was a man. I just wanted to be him. He had a huge impact on me, right down to that black leather jumpsuit he wore on the '68 Comeback Special.
You have to remember that when I met Elvis, you know, it wasn't the fanfare that it is today or even when he was here in the states and I was in Germany growing up.
Is Billy Idol just doing a bad Elvis pout, or was he born that way?
The first time I saw a picture of Elvis - I was in a state of shock, because I couldn't believe that a human being could be so beautiful.
Wouldn't it be interesting to take Elvis back to his Sun Records period? I don't know. But I'm content to listen to his Sun Records. I don't want to dig him up out of the grave.
I think everybody in my generation, we wanted to be Elvis.
The man who can sing when he hasn't got a thing, he's the king of the whole wide world.
If there hadn't been an Elvis, there wouldn't have been the Beatles.
Elvis was a symbol of the country's vitality, rebelliousness, and good humor.
I don't think there's ever been someone with as much presence as Elvis Presley, I mean if he walked into a room I think everyone would be looking at only him. Even when he was dying and through all that when you looked at him it seemed all put together. It fascinates me.