1- “You’ve got to be on the ball from the minute you step out into that spotlight. You gotta know exactly what you’re doing every second on that stage, otherwise the act goes right into the bathroom. It’s all over. Good night.”
2- “Love and marriage, love and marriage, go together like a horse and carriage. This I tell ya, brother, you can’t have one without the other.”
3- “Most of what has been written about me is one big blur, but I do remember being described in one simple word that I agree with. It was in a piece that tore me apart for my personal behavior, but the writer said that when the music began and I started to sing, I was “”honest.””
4- “If power doesn’t mean that you have the opportunity to work with the people that you love , then you haven’t really got any”
5- “I think my greatest ambition in life is to pass on to others what I know.”
6- “If you don’t know the guy on the other side of the world, love him anyway because he’s just like you. He has the same dreams, the same hopes and fears. It’s one world, pal. We’re all neighbours.”
7- “Only sing – don’t do cheap songs, don’t do silly songs, just do, just do wonderful songs that are well-written.”
8- “Whatever else has been said about me personally is unimportant. When I sing, I believe. I’m honest.”
9- “I’m for anything that gets you through the night, be it prayer, tranquillisers, or a bottle of Jack Daniels. But to me religion is a deeply personal thing in which man and God go it alone together, without the witch doctor in the middle.”
10- “Fear is the enemy of logic.”
11- “You treat a lady like a dame, and a dame like a lady.”
12- “I’m gonna live till I die.”
13- “The cigarettes you light one after another won’t help you forget her.”
14- “Whatever else has been said about me personally is unimportant. When I sing, I believe. I’m honest.”
15- “You may be a puzzle, but I like the way the parts fit”
16- “You only go around once, but if you play your cards right, once is enough.”
17- “I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family – and I don’t think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.”
18- “Don’t hide your scars. They make you who you are”
19- “If you don’t know the guy on the other side of the world, love him anyway because he’s just like you. He has the same dreams, the same hopes and fears. It’s one world, pal. We’re all neighbours
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20- “And now the end is near, and so I face the final curtain.”
21- “All day long, they lie in the sun, and when the sun goes down, they lie some more.”
22- “For what is a man, what has he got. If not himself, then he has naught.”
23- “I would like to be remembered as a man who brought an innovation to popular singing.”
24- “I’m not one of those complicated, mixed-up cats. I’m not looking for the secret to life… I just go on from day to day, taking what comes.”
25- “I’m just a singer, Elvis was the embodiment of the whole American culture”
26- “When I sing, I believe. I’m honest. If you want to get an audience with you, there’s only one way. You have to reach out to them with total honesty and humility.”
27- “People often remark that I’m pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you’ve got to have talent and know how to use it.”
28- “Take a deep breath, pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again.”
29- “Stay alive, stay active, and get as much practice as you can.”
30- “Fly me to the moon, let me play among the stars.”
31- “A simple I love you means more than money.”
32- “Someone said drink the water, but I will drink the wine
Someone said take a poor man, the rich don’t have a dime
Go fool yourself, if you will, I just haven’t got the time
I’ll give you back your water, and I will take the wine.”
33- “What is the point of singing wonderful lyrics if the audience can’t understand what is being said or heard?”
34- “At heart, I guess I’m a saloon singer because there’s a greater intimacy between performer and audience in a nightclub. Then again, I love the excitement of appearing before a big concert audience. Let’s just say that the place isn’t important, as long as everybody has a good time.”
35- “The best is yet to come and won’t that be fine.”
36- “Fear is the enemy of logic. There is no more debilitating, crushing, self-defeating, sickening thing in the world–to an individual or to a nation”
37- “A man doesn’t know what happiness is until he’s married. By then it’s too late.”
38- “I love all those girls the same as they love me. I get thousands of letters a week from girls who love me…. Every time I sing a song, I make love to them. I’m a boudoir singer.”
39- “Nothing anybody’s said or written about me ever bothers me, except when it does.”
40- “You can be the most artistically perfect performer in the world, but an audience is like a broad–if you’re indifferent, Endsville.”
41- “The best revenge is massive success.”
42- “Don’t respond to negativity with more negativity. Just put your head down and prove your critics wrong.”
43- “A friend to me has no race, no class and belongs to no minority. My friendships were formed out of affection, mutual respect and a feeling of having something strong in common. These are eternal values that cannot be racially classified. This is the way I look at race.”
44- “I’m for decency — period. I’m for anything and everything that bodes love and consideration for my fellow man. But when lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday — cash me out.”
45- “The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything.”
46- “I feel sorry for people who don’t drink. When they wake up in the morning, that’s as good as they’re going to feel all day.”
47- “You’ve either got or you haven’t got style, and if you’ve got it you stand out a mile.”
48- “I’m for whatever gets you through the night”
49- “I believe that God knows what each of us wants and needs. It’s not necessary for us to make it to church on Sunday to reach Him. You can find Him anyplace.”
50- “You only live once, and the way I live, once is enough.”
51- “If you possess something but you can’t give it away, then you don’t possess it … it possesses you.”
52- “To do is to be. -Descartes To be is to do. – Voltaire Do be do be do.”
53- “The best is yet to come, and won’t that be fine? You think you’ve seen the sun, but you ain’t seen it shine.”
54- “Rock n’ roll is the most disgusting form of expression, it’s brutal, malefic, a pestilential aphrodisiac, the preferred music of the delinquents of the earth.”
55- “Alcohol may be man’s worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.”