Top 200 Elvis Presley Quotes (2024 Update)
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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. “I don’t know anything about music. In my line you don’t have to.”

— Elvis Presley

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

— Elvis Presley

55. “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

56. “Memories, pressed between the pages of my mind. Memories, sweetened through the ages just like wine.”

— Elvis Presley

57. “The walls have ears, better think before you throw that shoe.”

— 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. “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

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

— Elvis Presley

62. “I don’t mind being controversial. Even Jesus wasn’t loved in his day.”

— Elvis Presley

63. “Animals don’t hate, and we’re supposed to be better than them.”

— Elvis Presley

64. “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

65. “Life has taught me one big lesson, always keep the girlies guessing.”

— Elvis Presley

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

— Elvis Presley

67. “People ask me where I got my singing style. I didn’t copy my style from anybody.”

— Elvis Presley

68. “Love had surely made us all and hate would surely make us fall.”

— Elvis Presley

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

— Elvis Presley

70. “There’s no such thing as an original sin.”

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

— Elvis Presley

74. “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

75. “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

76. “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

77. “Samson told Delilah loud and clear, keep your cotton picken fingers out of my hair.”

— Elvis Presley

78. “I have no use for bodyguards, but I have very specific use for two highly trained certified public accountants.”

— Elvis Presley

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

— Elvis Presley

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

— Elvis Presley

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

— Elvis Presley

82. “A little less fight and a little more spark, close your mouth and open your heart.”

— Elvis Presley

83. “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

84. “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

85. “Love is a thing you never can share.”

— Elvis Presley

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

— Elvis Presley

87. “Gospel music is the purest thing there is on this earth.”

— Elvis Presley

88. “Do the Clam, do the Clam, grab your barefoot baby by the hand.”

— Elvis Presley

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

— Elvis Presley

90. “The world is more alive at night; it’s like God isn’t looking.”

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

— Elvis Presley

98. “He holds his guitar like a Tommy gun.”

— Elvis Presley

99. “The greatest voice of all time.”

— Elvis Presley

100. “Take care of the fans and they will sure as hell take care of you.”

— Elvis Presley