120 Best Elvis Presley Quotes That Will Leave You All Shook Up

Elvis Presley was an American musician who was also considered as the 'King of Rock and Roll'.

With his melodious voice and iconic stage presence, Elvis made Rock' N Roll popular to the mainstream media. Elvis is thought to be one of the most renowned cultural icons of the 20th century.

Elvis also has an iconic catchphrase, "Elvis has left the building". Elvis would thank this audience after performing every song by saying, "Thank You, Thank you very much!"

There has been much of a debate about whether Elvis wrote his songs. However, Elvis was never a songwriter, but he did co-write a couple of his songs.

'God Bless, Adios' was the last song that the iconic singer sang before leaving for eternity. If you want to know the whole truth about Elvis, we think that you could do so by reading this article with all of his quotes. Elvis was one of the biggest legends, not just of his time, but of all time.

Most people of his time didn't just like him, they were obsessed with him. They always tried to do as much as they could to get close to him.

If you're obsessed with Elvis too, you shouldn't leave these quotes alone! We think these Elvis Presley quotes are going to blow your mind and leave you all shook up!

If you liked going through these quotes, then do try going through The Beatles quotes and Frank Sinatra quotes

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Best Quotes By Elvis Presley

Enlisted below are a few of the best and greatest quotes by the great man, Elvis Presley.

1. "It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way."

- Elvis Presley.

2. "If you let your head get too big, it'll break your neck."

- Elvis Presley.

3. "I didn't copy my style from anybody."

- Elvis Presley.

4. "Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't going away."

- Elvis Presley.

5. "My philosophy of life is simple: I need someone to love, something to wait and do something."

- Elvis Presley.

6. "When your intelligence don't tell you something ain't right, your conscience gives you a tap you on the shoulder and says 'hold on'. If it don't, you're a snake."

- Elvis Presley.

7. "When things go wrong, don't go with them."

- Elvis Presley.

8. "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.

9. "Everything is so dreamy when you are young. After you grow up it kind of becomes - just real."

- Elvis Presley.

10. "Computers may out think us one day, but as long as people got feelings we'll be better than they are."

- Elvis Presley.

11. "My fans want my shirt. They can have my shirt. They put it on my back."

- Elvis Presley.

12. "Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me. I can't help it."

- Elvis Presley.

13. "There are too many people that depend on me. I'm too obligated. I'm in too far to get out."

- Elvis Presley.

14. "Values are like fingerprints. Nobody's are the same, but you leave 'em all over everything you do."

- Elvis Presley.

15. "It's not how much you have that makes people look up to you, it's who you are."

- Elvis Presley.

16. "I ain't no saint, but I've tried never to do anything that would hurt my family or offend God."

- Elvis Presley.

17. " It's more important to try to surround yourself with people who can give you a little happiness."

- Elvis Presley.

18. "I am not the King. Jesus Christ is the King. I'm just an entertainer."

- Elvis Presley.

19. "Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over."

- Elvis Presley.

20. "A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage."

- Elvis Presley.

21. "Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine."

- Elvis Presley.

22. "Memories, pressed between the pages of my mind. Memories, sweetened through the ages just like wine."

- Elvis Presley.

23. "Until we meet again, may God bless you as he has blessed me."

- Elvis Presley.

24. "Do something worth remembering."

- Elvis Presley.

25. "Take your troubles to the Chapel, get down on your knees and pray."

- Elvis Presley.

Famous Elvis Presley Quotes

Here you will find famous quotes of Elvis Presley along with Elvis one liners, cool Elvis Presley sayings and funny Elvis quotes.

26. "Everybody comes from the same source. If you hate another human being, you're hating part of yourself."

- Elvis Presley.

27. "When I was a child I was a dreamer. "

- Elvis Presley.

28. "I lose myself in my singing."

- Elvis Presley.

29. "I'm so lucky to be in the position to give. It's really a gift to give."

- Elvis Presley.

30. "I'll never feel comfortable taking a strong drink, and I'll never feel easy smoking a cigarette."

- Elvis Presley.

31. "I feel my temperature rising. Help me, I'm flaming, I must be a hundred and nine."

- Elvis Presley.

32. "I don't want to be a tiger, tigers play too rough."

- Elvis Presley.

33. "I don't want to be a lion, cause lions ain't the kind you love up."

- Elvis Presley.

34. "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

35. "It's all a big hoax, honey. I never wrote a song in my life."

- Elvis Presley.

36. "Viva Las Vegas with your neon flashin' and your one arm bandits crashin' all those hopes down the drain."

- Elvis Presley.

37. "When we kiss my heart's on fire, burning with a strange desire."

- Elvis Presley.

38. "And I know that every time I kiss you, that your heart's on fire, too. "

- Elvis Presley.

39. "We're trapped in a world that's troubled with pain."

- Elvis Presley.

40. "A lot of people seem to think I started this business. But rock 'n' roll was here a long time before I came along."

- Elvis Presley.

41. "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.

42. "You look like an angel, walk like an angel, talk like an angel."

- Elvis Presley.

43. "Rock and roll is a music, and why should a music contribute to juvenile delinquency?"

- Elvis Presley.

44. "Don't criticize what you don't understand, son. You never walked in that man's shoes."

- Elvis Presley.

45. "I get tired of playing a guy who gets into a fight, then starts singing to the guy he's just beat up."

- Elvis Presley.

46. "I like to sing ballads the way Eddie Fisher does and the way Perry Como does."

- Elvis Presley.

47. "But the way I'm singing now is what makes the money."

- Elvis Presley.

48.  "As long as a man has the strength to dream, he can redeem his soul and fly."

- Elvis Presley.

49. "Maybe it's my early training singing gospel hymns. I'm limp as a rag, worn out when a show's over."

- Elvis Presley.

50."So every dream I have ever dreamed has come true a thousand times."

- Elvis Presley.

51. "It's my favorite part of the business, live concerts."

- Elvis Presley.

52. "You only pass through this life once, Jack. You don't come back for an encore."

- Elvis Presley.

53. "The image is one thing and the human being is another."

- Elvis Presley.

54. " It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way."

- Elvis Presley.

55. "I learned how important it is to entertain people and give them a reason to come and watch you play."

- Elvis Presley.

56. "The first time that I appeared on stage, it scared me to death."

- Elvis Presley.

57. "I have no use for bodyguards, but I have very specific use for two highly trained certified public accountants."

- Elvis Presley.

58. "The walls have ears, ears that hear each little sound you make every time you stamp, throw a lamp."

- Elvis Presley.

59. "My daddy knew a lot of guitar players, and most of them didn't work, so he said, 'you should make your mind up to either be a guitar player or an electrician.'"

- Elvis Presley.

60. "I don't believe I'd sing the way I do if God hadn't wanted me to."

- Elvis Presley.

61.  "The first car I bought was the most beautiful car I've ever seen."

- Elvis Presley.

The Best Quotes About Elvis Presley

In this category, you will find the best quotes about Elvis, which others have said.

62. "I was the Elvis of boxing."

- Muhammad Ali.

63. "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."

- Mac Davis.

64. "The first record I ever listened to was Elvis Presley, and I remember thinking, 'Man this guy is cool!'"

- Jesse McCartney.

65. "I saw an Elvis Presley movie, 'Jailhouse Rock', where he gets out of jail and makes his own records and takes them to the radio stations himself."

- Bobby Vinton.

66. "And if there's any hope for America, it lies in a revolution, and if there's any hope for a revolution in America, it lies in getting Elvis Presley to become Che Guevara."

- Phil Ochs.

67. "And also Elvis Presley is a really great guitar player. I don't think he ever took lessons."

- Brittany Howard.

68. "When I was a kid, and Elvis Presley broke through to a middle class, white audience, it was a sociological phenomenon that lasted through the Beatles and even a bit through Fleetwood Mac."

- Lindsey Buckingham.

69. "I did 'Viva Las Vegas' with Elvis Presley and Ann-Margret."

- Toni Basil.

70. "God's the final judge for Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash too."

- Johnny Cash.

71. "Every once in awhile, the world will push up an Elvis Presley or a Beatles."

- Roy Orbison.

Elvis Presley Quotes About Love

Here are some of the finest Elvis quotes about love.

72. "Love had surely made us all and hate would surely make us fall."

- Elvis Presley.

73. "A little less fight and a little more spark, close your mouth and open your heart."

- Elvis Presley.

74. "All the stars will tell the story, of our love and all its glory. "

- Elvis Presley.

75. "Let us make this night of magic, and make it a night of love."

- Elvis Presley.

76. "Your kisses lift me higher... like the sweet song of a choir. "

- Elvis Presley.

77. "Take my hand, take my whole life too, but I can't help falling in love with you."

- Elvis Presley.

78. "Sad thing is, you can still love someone and be wrong for them."

- Elvis Presley.

79. "When we're dancing it almost feels the same, I've got to stop myself from whispering your name."

- Elvis Presley.

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

- Elvis Presley.

81. "If you wanna be loved, baby, you've got to love me, too."

- Elvis Presley.

Inspirational Quotes From Elvis Presley

Enlisted below are the inspirational quotes of Elvis Presley.

82. "I'm trying to keep a level head. "

- Elvis Presley.

83. "You have to be careful out in the world."

- Elvis Presley.

84. "Somebody does somethin' stupid, that's human. They don't stop when they see it's wrong, that's a fool."

- Elvis Presley.

85. "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. "

- Elvis Presley.

86. "Never wait for tomorrow, what if tomorrow never comes?"

- Elvis Presley.

87. "I figure all any kid needs is hope and the feeling he or she belongs."

- Elvis Presley.

88. "Well, by God, I'll tell you something, friend: I have never been strung-out in my life, except on music!"

- Elvis Presley.

89. "All I want is to know the truth, to know and experience God."

- Elvis Presley.

90. "To judge a man by his weakest link or deed is like judging the power of the ocean by one wave."

- Elvis Presley.

91. "I was an only child, and Mother was always right with me all my life. "

- Elvis Presley.

92. "Envy someone an' it pulls you down. Admire them and it builds you up. Which makes more sense?"

- Elvis Presley.

93. "The Lord can give, and the Lord can take away."

- Elvis Presley.

Elvis Presley Song Quotes

Don't leave without reading these best quotes from the songs of Elvis Presley!

94. "Shall I stay?

Would it be a sin

If I can't help falling in love with you?"

- Elvis Presley.

95. "At Heartbreak Hotel

Where I'll be - where I get so lonely, baby."

- Elvis Presley.

96. "Let's don't let a good thing die

When honey, you know I've never lied to you."

- Elvis Presley.

97. "Come on over here and love me you know what I want you to say."

- Elvis Presley.

98. "Fate had me playing in love you as my sweet heart."

- Elvis Presley.

99. "When I'm near the girl that I love best

My heart beats so it scares me to death."

- Elvis Presley.

100. "We're caught in a trap

I can't walk out

Because I love you too much, baby"

- Elvis Presley.

101. "Yeah, you ain't never caught a rabbit

And you ain't no friend of mine."

- Elvis Presley.

102. "Don't be cruel to a heart that's true

Baby if I made you mad for somethin' I might have said."

- Elvis Presley.

103. "Just take a walk down Lonely Street

To Heartbreak Hotel."

- Elvis Presley.

104. "Well, my hands are shaky and my knees are weak

I can't seem to stand on my own two feet."

- Elvis Presley.

105. "Girl, girl, girl, girl

You gonna set me on fire."

- Elvis Presley.

106. "Baby, close your eyes and listen to the music

Drifting through a summer breeze."

- Elvis Presley.

107. "Well a hard headed woman

A soft hearted man

Been the cause of trouble

Ever since the world began."

- Elvis Presley.

108. "I've spent a lifetime

Waiting for the right time."

- Elvis Presley.

109. "Keep on dancin'

I'm about to have myself a fit"

- Elvis Presley.

110. "Some people get their kicks

Stomping on a dream."

- Elvis Presley.

111. "Fools rush in, so here I am

Very glad to be unhappy."

- Elvis Presley.

112. "My old heart ain't gaining any ground

Because my angel eyes ain't here."

- Elvis Presley.

113. "It's such an ancient pitch

But one that I would never switch

'Cause there's no nicer witch than you."

- Elvis Presley.

114. "If I can't have your love now baby

There won't be nothing left behind."

- Elvis Presley.

115. "And the night

Night is as black as the sea, oh yes."

- Elvis Presley.

116. "There will be peace in the valley for me, some day

There will be peace in the valley for me, oh Lord I pray."

- Elvis Presley.

117. "Everybody said it was a shame

Because her momma was a workin' on the chain gang."

- Elvis Presley.

118. "I can't win, but here I am

More than glad to be unhappy."

- Elvis Presley.

119. "Lying by your side, I watch you sleeping"

- Elvis Presley.

120."In your face the sweetness of a child."

- Elvis Presley.

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