"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."
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Elvis Presley quotes (page 2 of 13)
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"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."
"Rock and roll is a music, and why should a music contribute to ... juvenile delinquency? If people are going to be juvenile delinquents, they're going to be delinquents if they hear ... Mother Goose rhymes."
"I've had a pretty good lesson in human nature. It's more important to try to surround yourself with people who can give you a little happiness, because you only pass through this life once, Jack. You don't come back for an encore."
"Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over."
"Do what's right for you, so long as it don't hurt no one."
"Envy someone an' it pulls you down. Admire them and it builds you up. Which makes more sense?"
"If you let your head get too big, it'll break your neck."
"Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me. I can't help it.'"
"Tomorrow will be too late, it's now or never."
"I'll stay in Memphis."
"It's not how much you have that makes people look up to you, it's who you are."
"When I got outta High School I was driving a truck. I was just a poor boy from Memphis, Memphis."
"We can't build our dreams on suspicious minds."
"When things go wrong, don't go with them."
"To judge a man by his weakest link or deed is like judging the power of the ocean by one wave."
"When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream."
"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."
"People think you're crazy if you talk about things they don't understand."
"When your intelligence don't tell you something ain't right, your conscience gives you a tap you on the shoulder and says 'Hold on'. If it don't, you're a snake."