110+ Elvis Presley Quotes On Happiness, Music And Death

Elvis Presley was an American singer, musician, and actor. He is one of the most influential figures of 20th-century popular culture and is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll" or simply "the King". His unique sound and style of music has left an indelible mark on popular culture and has had a significant influence on many other artists. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Elvis Presley on happiness, love, music.

Top 10 Elvis Presley Quotes

1. To judge a man by his weakest link or deed is like judging the power of the ocean by one wave.
2. Values are like fingerprints. Nobody's are the same, but you leave 'em all over everything you do
3. Everybody comes from the same source. If you hate another human being, you're hating part of yourself.
4. I have no use for bodyguards, but I have very specific use for two highly trained certified public accountants.
5. You look like an angel, walk like an angel, talk like an angel. But I got wise, you're the devil in disguise.
6. Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.
7. You only pass through this life once, you don't come back for an encore.
8. Until we meet again, may God bless you as he has blessed me.
9. Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.
10. 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 Image Quotes

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

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine. — Elvis Presley

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

Elvis Presley Short Quotes

• Never wait for tomorrow, what if tomorrow never comes?
• I did the Ed Sullivan show four times. I did the Steve Allen show. I did the Jackie Gleason show.
• Don't criticize what you can't understand, son. You never walked in that's man shoes.
• After a hard day of basic training, you could eat a rattlesnake.
• Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.
• If you let your head get too big, it'll break your neck.
• I'll stay in Memphis.
• When I got outta High School I was driving a truck. I was just a poor boy from Memphis, Memphis.
• Do the Clam, do the Clam, grab your barefoot baby by the hand.
• She touched my hand what a chill I got, her lips are like a volcano that's hot.

Elvis Presley Quotes About Love

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Elvis Presley Quotes About Music

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

Rock and roll is a music, and why should a music contribute to ... juvenile delinquency? If people are going to be juvenile delinquents, they're going to be delinquents if they hear ... Mother Goose rhymes. — Elvis Presley

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

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. — Elvis Presley

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

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

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

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

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

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

Elvis Presley Quotes About Life

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

Tomorrow will be too late, it's now or never. — Elvis Presley

When things go wrong, don't go with them. — Elvis Presley

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

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

I hope I didn't bore you too much with my life story. — Elvis Presley

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

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

Like a river flows surely to the sea/Darling so it goes/Some things are meant to be/Take my hand, take my whole life too/For I can't help falling in love with you. — Elvis Presley

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

Elvis Presley Quotes About God

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

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

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

The world is more alive at night; it's like God isn't looking. — Elvis Presley

I believe in the Bible. I believe that all good things come from God. I don't believe I'd sing the way I do if God hadn't wanted me to.' — Elvis Presley

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

Elvis Presley Quotes About People

People ask me where I got my singing style. I didn't copy my style from anybody. — Elvis Presley

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

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

I don't think I'm bad for people. If I did think I was bad for people, I would go back to driving a truck, and I really mean this. — Elvis Presley

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

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

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

I want to entertain people. That's my whole life. To my last breath. — Elvis Presley

People think you're crazy if you talk about things they don't understand. — Elvis Presley

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

Elvis Presley Quotes About Movies

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

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

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

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

Too much TV hurts movies. — Elvis Presley

Those movies sure got me into a rut. — Elvis Presley

Later on they send me to Hollywood. To make movies. It was all new to me. I was only 21 years old. — Elvis Presley

Elvis Presley Quotes About Singing

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

The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck. — Elvis Presley

I miss my singing career very much. — Elvis Presley

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

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

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

The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I'm doin' now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them. — Elvis Presley

When I started singing, I weighed 153 pounds. I weigh 184 now. I haven't gotten any taller, but I'm putting on a little more weight. — Elvis Presley

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

I can't sing very well but I'd like to try. — Elvis Presley

Elvis Presley Famous Quotes And Sayings

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

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine. — Elvis Presley

You ain't nothing but hound dog, cryin' all the time. You ain't never caught a rabbit and you ain't no friend of mine. — Elvis Presley

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

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

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

Happiness is knowin' you've done a good job, whether it's professional or for another person. — Elvis Presley

That's why I hate to get started in these jam sessions. I'm always the last one to leave. — Elvis Presley

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

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

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

I think I have something tonight that's not quite correct for evening wear. Blue suede shoes. — Elvis Presley

I'm no hillbilly singer. — Elvis Presley

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

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

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

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

You're so square, baby, I don't care. — Elvis Presley

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

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

Animals don't hate, and we're supposed to be better than them. — Elvis Presley

I've come too far, and I don't know how to get back. — Elvis Presley

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

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

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

Man, I really like Vegas. — Elvis Presley

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

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

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

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

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

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

When I get married, it'll be no secret. — Elvis Presley

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

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

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

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

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

Viva Las Vegas with your neon flashin' and your one arm bandits crashin' all those hopes down the drain. Viva Las Vegas turnin' day into nighttime, turnin night into daytime. If you see it once, you'll never be the same again. — Elvis Presley

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

I'm lonely like Adam and you're evil like Eve. — Elvis Presley

The first car I bought was the most beautiful car I've ever seen. It was secondhand, but I parked it outside of my hotel the day I got it. I sat up all night, just lookin' at it. — Elvis Presley

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

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

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

It's not just self defense, it's about...self control, body discipline, and mind discipline...and breath techniques. It involves yoga. It involves meditation. It's an art, not a sport. — Elvis Presley

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

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

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

I didn't know that there were any radio stations in Nova Scotia. — Elvis Presley

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

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

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

Life Lessons by Elvis Presley

1. Elvis Presley taught us that hard work and dedication can pay off, as he was able to achieve success and fame through his music despite humble beginnings.
2. He also demonstrated that it is possible to stay true to yourself and your values even when you become famous.
3. Finally, Elvis showed us the importance of staying humble and generous, as he was known for his philanthropy and kindness.