I like visual images and there are certainly other bands that have strong visual images going all the way back to Elvis Presley, but it's kind of like that's never really been my bag. Probably because I'm too shy.
- Frank Black
This is Graceland. Home of the most famous musician in the world."
"Michael Jackson lived here?"
"No, dummy," Carter said. "Elvis Presley.
- Rick Riordan
I'd been to Memphis before, but we stayed out of Memphis early on in the late 70s for obvious reasons. People were very sensitive about Elvis Presley, and my stage name obviously would be provocative to some people in that area at that time.
- Elvis Costello
Be ye innocent as doves yet wise as serphants new testament quoted by Elvis Presley and applied to karate
- Elvis Presley
It's pretty amazing to me that my first hit record was an Elvis Presley record.
- Mac Davis
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.
- Mac Davis
I was obsessed with Elvis Presley when I was little.
- Gina Gershon
I guess I thought I was Elvis Presley but I'll tell ya something. All Elvis did was stand on a stage and play a guitar. He never fell off on that pavement at no 80 mph.
- Evel Knievel
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.
- Dean Koontz
I don't sing to people. I sing for them. I told that once to Elvis Presley. He bought it. After that Elvis sang not to but for the audience. A subtle difference.
- Tony Martin
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
Especially with four insanely angry, sword-carrying pirates bearing down on you, followed closely by an alien with a genetic malfunction that posed like Elvis Presley and looked slightly like a cross between a koala and a cuddly dog.
- Ridley Pearson
Being Elvis Presley's daughter is a whole lot of pressure. It's been a constant burden in my life.
- Lisa Marie Presley
In 20 years I had sold more records for RCA than any artist except Elvis Presley.
- Charley Pride
To me, John Lennon and Elvis Presley were punks, because they made music that evoked those emotions in people.
- Joey Ramone
I know I'm not going to sing like Aretha Franklin or Elvis Presley or any of those people.
- George Thorogood
When I heard Elvis Presley, then I knew I had to do music. Music is my god, and is the only love that has never left me. It has always been there and is my best friend.
- Ville Valo
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. And then, he puts records in the store. After seeing that, I made records an put them in stores.
- Bobby Vinton
Elvis Presley, The Everly Brothers, and a lot of American artists were my greatest influences.
- Gordon Waller
People are quite shocked when you remind them that Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra never wrote a song that they recorded in their lives, as far as I know.
- Robert Wyatt
- Frank Black
This is Graceland. Home of the most famous musician in the world."
"Michael Jackson lived here?"
"No, dummy," Carter said. "Elvis Presley.
- Rick Riordan
I'd been to Memphis before, but we stayed out of Memphis early on in the late 70s for obvious reasons. People were very sensitive about Elvis Presley, and my stage name obviously would be provocative to some people in that area at that time.
- Elvis Costello
Be ye innocent as doves yet wise as serphants new testament quoted by Elvis Presley and applied to karate
- Elvis Presley
It's pretty amazing to me that my first hit record was an Elvis Presley record.
- Mac Davis
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.
- Mac Davis
I was obsessed with Elvis Presley when I was little.
- Gina Gershon
I guess I thought I was Elvis Presley but I'll tell ya something. All Elvis did was stand on a stage and play a guitar. He never fell off on that pavement at no 80 mph.
- Evel Knievel
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.
- Dean Koontz
I don't sing to people. I sing for them. I told that once to Elvis Presley. He bought it. After that Elvis sang not to but for the audience. A subtle difference.
- Tony Martin
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
Especially with four insanely angry, sword-carrying pirates bearing down on you, followed closely by an alien with a genetic malfunction that posed like Elvis Presley and looked slightly like a cross between a koala and a cuddly dog.
- Ridley Pearson
Being Elvis Presley's daughter is a whole lot of pressure. It's been a constant burden in my life.
- Lisa Marie Presley
In 20 years I had sold more records for RCA than any artist except Elvis Presley.
- Charley Pride
To me, John Lennon and Elvis Presley were punks, because they made music that evoked those emotions in people.
- Joey Ramone
I know I'm not going to sing like Aretha Franklin or Elvis Presley or any of those people.
- George Thorogood
When I heard Elvis Presley, then I knew I had to do music. Music is my god, and is the only love that has never left me. It has always been there and is my best friend.
- Ville Valo
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. And then, he puts records in the store. After seeing that, I made records an put them in stores.
- Bobby Vinton
Elvis Presley, The Everly Brothers, and a lot of American artists were my greatest influences.
- Gordon Waller
People are quite shocked when you remind them that Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra never wrote a song that they recorded in their lives, as far as I know.
- Robert Wyatt
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