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

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

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

If you bring a friend into your love affair, that's the end of your sweetheart that's the end of your friend, that's when your heartache begins.

I was an overnight sensation.

I don't do any vulgar movements.

Love me tender, love me sweet, never let me go.

THANK YA THANK YA VERY MUCH

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

You don't like hot rod racing or driving late at night, you just want to park where it's nice and dark.

Any audience, as a rule, goes for a fast number.

we can't build our dreams,
on suspicious minds

All I want is to know the truth, to know and experience God. I'm a searcher, that's what I'm all about.

Those movies sure got me into a rut.

Man, I really like Vegas.

I go for all the belles, except the wedding kind.

I'm with a crowd but oh so alone.

Too much TV hurts movies.

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

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.

I'd just like to be treated like a regular customer.

Do something worth remembering.

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

Don't tell me baby you gotta go, I got the hifi high and the lights down low.

I am not the King. Jesus Christ is the King. I'm just an entertainer.

The walls have ears, ears that hear each little sound you make every time you stamp, throw a lamp.

I think most people have a natural instinct to rebel.

Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.

It's human nature to gripe, but I'm going ahead and doing the best I can.

He holds his guitar like a Tommy gun.

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.

I can preach until your deaf and dumb, I'm in that soul saving army beating on that big bass drum.

I've tried to lead a straight, clean life, not set any kind of a bad example.

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

I'm strictly for Stevenson. I don't dig the intellectual bit, but I'm telling you, man, he knows the most.

Look guys, if you're just going to stare at me, I'm going to bed!

Where could I go but to the Lord?

Values are like fingerprints. Nobody's are the same, but you leave 'em all over everything you do

Music should be something that makes you gotta move, inside or outside.

My fans want my shirt. They can have my shirt. They put it on my back.

Little sister, don't you do what your big sister done.

You look like an angel, walk like an angel, talk like an angel. But I got wise, you're the devil in disguise.

I get sometimes; I get lonesome right in the middle of a crowd.

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

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

Everybody comes from the same source. If you hate another human being, you're hating part of yourself.

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

Love is a thing you never can share.

[It's] funny how things have a way of looking so much brighter in the daytime.

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

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

I'm evil, my middle name is misery. Well, I'm evil, so don't mess around with me.

I like Brando's acting ... and James Dean ... and Richard Widmark. Quite a few of 'em I like.

If you let your head get too big, it'll break your neck.

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.

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

You can do anything, but lay off my blue suede shoes

Since my baby left me, I've found a new place to dwell, down at the end of Lonely Street at Heartbreak Hotel.

I miss my singing career very much.

I love only one girl, one in every town.

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

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.

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.

I don't like people who are in politics for themselves and not for others. You want that, you can go into show business.

I get tired of playing a guy who gets into a fight, then starts singing to the guy he's just beat up.

Her little sister will tell you she don't live here anymore.

I'll be a fool or a wiseman, my darling, you hold the key. Anyway you want me, that's how I will be.

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.

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.

Gospel music is the purest thing there is on this earth.

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

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.

I saw three shrimp in the water, two were old and gray. I swam a little closer, and I heard the third one say, good-bye Mama.

If one can't give what they have and share then they will always be empty

I figure all any kid needs is hope and the feeling he or she belongs.

From the time I was a kid, I always knew something was going to happen to me. Didn't know exactly what.

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

Don't step on my blue suede shoes.

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

The road to love is full of danger signs.

When we're dancing it almost feels the same, I've got to stop myself from whispering your name.

Talent is being able to sell what you're feeling.

I'm so lucky to be in the position to give. It's really a gift to give.

The greatest voice of all time.

The only kind of trouble I've ever been in is when I was stealing eggs when I was little. I think I know right from wrong.

I'm no hillbilly singer.

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

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

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

Didja ever get one of them girls who just wants to watch the show?

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't going away.

Ah just act the way ah feel.

Sharing money is what gives it its value.

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

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

Man, I was tame compared to what they do now. Are you kidding? I didn't do anything but just jiggle.

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

Don't leave my embrace for here in my arms is your place.

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.

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