Elvis Presley "The King"
1. 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.
2. After a hard day of basic training, you could eat a rattlesnake.
3. Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.
4. Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.
5. From the time I was a kid, I always knew something was going to happen to me. Didn't know exactly what.
6. I did the Ed Sullivan show four times. I did the Steve Allen show. I did the Jackie Gleason show.
7. I don't do any vulgar movements.
8. I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.
9. I hope I didn't bore you too much with my life story.
10. I knew by heart all the dialogue of James Dean's films; I could watch Rebel Without a Cause a hundred times over.
11. I learned how important it is to entertain people and give them a reason to come and watch you play.
12. 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.
13. I was an overnight sensation.
14. I was training to be an electrician. I suppose I got wired the wrong way round somewhere along the line.
15. I'd just like to be treated like a regular customer.
16. 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.
17. I'll never make it, it will never happen, because they're never going to hear me 'cause they're screaming all the time.
19. I'm no hillbilly singer.
20. I'm not trying to be sexy. It's just my way of expressing myself when I move around.
21. I'm so nervous. I've always been nervous, ever since I was a kid.
22. I'm strictly for Stevenson. I don't dig the intellectual bit, but I'm telling you, man, he knows the most.
23. I'm trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It's so easy to get turned.
24. I've never written a song in my life. It's all a big hoax.
25. Just because I managed to do a little something, I don't want anyone back home to think I got the big head.
26. Since the beginning, it was just the same. The only difference, the crowds are bigger now.
27. That's why I hate to get started in these jam sessions. I'm always the last one to leave.
28. The army teaches boys to think like men.
29. The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.
30. The image is one thing and the human being is another. It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.
31. The Lord can give, and the Lord can take away. I might be herding sheep next year.
32. 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.
33. There are too many people that depend on me. I'm too obligated. I'm in too far to get out.
34. Those movies sure got me into a rut.
35. Those people in New York are not gonna change me none.
37. Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.
38. Whatever I will become will be what God has chosen for me.
39. When I get married, it'll be no secret.
40. When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.
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