Elvis Quotes
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Elvis may be the King of Rock and Roll, but I am the Queen.
Little Richard -
I thank God for Elvis Presley. I thank the Lord for sending Elvis to open the door so I could walk down the road.
Little Richard
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Elvis was the reason I picked up the guitar.
Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel -
Elvis is iconic; a lot of performers today look to that for inspiration.
Beyonce Destiny's Child -
No one, but no one, is equal, or ever will be. Elvis was and is supreme.
Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones -
She thinks that he looks like Elvis, when he runs his fingers through that jet black hair.
Joe Diffie -
U2 have a lot of religion, also people like Johnny Cash and Elvis. Those people weren't shy about it - it's nice there are people who've come before that were open about...
Brandon Flowers The Killers -
Before, I was terrified on stage. I only play guitar during the acoustic songs. After a while, you can elicit certain responses from the crowd, like Elvis.
Andy Gibb
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I didn't come after Elvis and Dylan, I've been around always. But if I see or meet a great artist, I love them.
John Lennon The Beatles -
Nothing affected me until I heard Elvis. Without Elvis there would be no Beatles.
John Lennon The Beatles -
I remember that, before John Lennon died, everyone was saying that Rolling Stone couldn't do good reporting anymore. But when he died, they wrote this amazing issue, as they should have about Lennon. They did that when Elvis died, too.
Cameron Crowe -
Elvis was God-given, there's no other explanation. A Messiah comes around every few thousand years, and Elvis was it this time.
Little Richard -
I hear them playing Elvis, they on they way to Graceland. But they don't scare me, I'm in the trunk.
Wyclef Jean Fugees -
I'd been working with Elvis, but I just recorded Country, so he, definitely, like you said, encouraged me to try it, but I didn't, right then.
Wanda Jackson
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A lot of people have accused Elvis of stealing the black man's music, when in fact, almost every black solo entertainer copied his stage mannerisms from Elvis.
Jackie Wilson -
Elvis died the day he went into the army.
John Lennon The Beatles -
When I first heard Elvis perform "Bridge Over Trouble Water" it was unbelivable,and I thought to myself, how the hell can I compete with that?
Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel -
I was flying back from Lubbock and I saw Jesus on the plane, or maybe it was Elvis. You know, they kind of look the same.
Don Henley The Eagles -
We got a Chinese Elvis painted by Norman Rockwell.
Steve Hackett Genesis -
My favorite artists have always been Elvis and The Beatles and they still are!
John William Cummings Ramones
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I was loud and electric at night, got all shook up with Elvis.
Sammy Hagar Chickenfoot -
I don't believe in Elvis I don't believe in Zimmerman I don't believe in Beatles I just believe in me.
John Lennon The Beatles -
I romanticize. I live with the ghosts of Elvis and Frank Sinatra. It seems so glamorous. They were American men who don't exist anymore. But there are ugly things about them, too.
Brandon Flowers The Killers -
Elvis ate America before America ate him.
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