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AHMET ERTEGUN Whatever I'm doing, I'm in that moment and I'm doing it. The rest of the world's los...
SADE ADU I'm the elected sheriff, and I'm going to keep doing what the Constitution says I can do.
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Until we meet again, may God bless you as he has blessed me.
ELVIS PRESLEY People ask me where I got my singing style. I didn't copy my style from anybody.
ELVIS PRESLEY Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.
ELVIS PRESLEY Those people in New York are not gonna change me none.
ELVIS PRESLEY There are too many people that depend on me. I'm too obligated. I'm in too far to get out.
ELVIS PRESLEY I'm trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It's so easy to ge...
ELVIS PRESLEY I learned how important it is to entertain people and give them a reason to come and watch you play.
ELVIS PRESLEY The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I'm doin' now, man, for more year...
ELVIS PRESLEY The army teaches boys to think like men.
ELVIS PRESLEY Man, I really like Vegas.
ELVIS PRESLEY I'm so nervous. I've always been nervous, ever since I was a kid.
ELVIS PRESLEY The image is one thing and the human being is another. It's very hard to live up to an image, pu...
ELVIS PRESLEY I'll never feel comfortable taking a strong drink, and I'll never feel easy smoking a cigare...
ELVIS PRESLEY A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and o...
ELVIS PRESLEY I never expected to be anybody important.
ELVIS PRESLEY Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundre...
ELVIS PRESLEY Whatever I will become will be what God has chosen for me.
ELVIS PRESLEY Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.
ELVIS PRESLEY The image is one thing and the human being is another. It's very hard to live up to an image, put it...
ELVIS PRESLEY Animals don't hate, and we're supposed to be better than them.
ELVIS PRESLEY Ah just act the way ah feel.
ELVIS PRESLEY I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
ELVIS PRESLEY I did the Ed Sullivan show four times. I did the Steve Allen show. I did the Jackie Gleason show.
ELVIS PRESLEY I have no use for bodyguards, but I have very specific use for two highly trained certified public a...
ELVIS PRESLEY Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.
ELVIS PRESLEY Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's w...
ELVIS PRESLEY Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.
ELVIS PRESLEY I hope I didn't bore you too much with my life story.
ELVIS PRESLEY The Lord can give, and the Lord can take away. I might be herding sheep next year.
ELVIS PRESLEY I was training to be an electrician. I suppose I got wired the wrong way round somewhere along the l...
ELVIS PRESLEY I'm not trying to be sexy. It's just my way of expressing myself when I move around.
ELVIS PRESLEY I've tried to lead a straight, clean life, not set any kind of a bad example.
ELVIS PRESLEY I like to sing ballads the way Eddie Fisher does and the way Perry Como does. But the way I'm si...
ELVIS PRESLEY When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing th...
ELVIS PRESLEY Just because I managed to do a little something, I don't want anyone back home to think I got th...
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ELVIS PRESLEY There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn ...
ELVIS PRESLEY I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
ELVIS PRESLEY When things go wrong, don't go with them.
ELVIS PRESLEY I learned very early in life that: "Without a song, the day would never end; without a friend, a man...
ELVIS PRESLEY People ask me where I got my singing style. I didn't copy my style from anybody . . . . Country musi...
ELVIS PRESLEY I like entertaining people. I really miss it.
ELVIS PRESLEY Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't going away.
ELVIS PRESLEY Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happen...
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ELVIS PRESLEY I'll stay in Memphis.
ELVIS PRESLEY When I got outta High School I was driving a truck. I was just a poor boy from Memphis, Memphis.
ELVIS PRESLEY Man, that record came out and was real big in Memphis. They started playing it, and it got real big....
ELVIS PRESLEY I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production,...
ELVIS PRESLEY I'm no hillbilly singer.
ELVIS PRESLEY After a hard day of basic training, you could eat a rattlesnake.
ELVIS PRESLEY I don't make no dirty movements
ELVIS PRESLEY Don't criticize what you don't understand, son. You never walked in that man's shoes.
ELVIS PRESLEY I was an only child, and Mother was always right with me all my life. I used to get very angry at he...
ELVIS PRESLEY When things go bad, don't go with them.
ELVIS PRESLEY I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.
ELVIS PRESLEY Just a minute,
ELVIS PRESLEY I ain't no saint, but I have tried never to do anything that would hurt my family or offend God. I f...
ELVIS PRESLEY Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.
ELVIS PRESLEY Look guys, if you're just going to stare at me, I'm going to bed!
ELVIS PRESLEY Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it's not going to go away.
ELVIS PRESLEY I learned a lot from 'Elvis' because it wasn't just the impersonator I had to watch,
ELVIS PRESLEY Maybe it was the sideburns, but I just didnt fit in. (Elvis speaking about his youth)
ELVIS PRESLEY When things go wrong don't go with them
ELVIS PRESLEY The image is one thing and the human being is another...It's very hard to live up to an image, put i...
ELVIS PRESLEY Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happ...
ELVIS PRESLEY Music should be something that makes you gotta move, inside or outside
ELVIS PRESLEY Do what's right for you, as long as it don't hurt no one
ELVIS PRESLEY A Sharon.
ELVIS PRESLEY It more or less puts your mind at ease, ... It does mine.
ELVIS PRESLEY I am hands on with this with Bruno,
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ELVIS PRESLEY better stick to driving trucks.
ELVIS PRESLEY You got change, man?
ELVIS PRESLEY We're all just waiting to see what changes, if any, will be made,
ELVIS PRESLEY Illusions of The King.
ELVIS PRESLEY and I got the collection my Mother had, and I can't sell any of it.
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ELVIS PRESLEY Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.
ELVIS PRESLEY I think I have something tonight that's not quite correct for evening wear. Blue suede shoes.
ELVIS PRESLEY I'm strictly for Stevenson. I don't dig the intellectual bit, but I'm telling you, man, ...
ELVIS PRESLEY Those movies sure got me into a rut.
ELVIS PRESLEY I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
ELVIS PRESLEY Later on they send me to Hollywood. To make movies. It was all new to me. I was only 21 years old.
ELVIS PRESLEY I'll never make it, it will never happen, because they're never going to hear me 'cause ...
ELVIS PRESLEY Since the beginning, it was just the same. The only difference, the crowds are bigger now.
ELVIS PRESLEY I don't think I'm bad for people. If I did think I was bad for people, I would go back to dr...
ELVIS PRESLEY My movements, ma'am, are all leg movements. I don't do nothing with my body.
ELVIS PRESLEY I was an overnight sensation.
ELVIS PRESLEY That's why I hate to get started in these jam sessions. I'm always the last one to leave.
ELVIS PRESLEY The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first reco...
ELVIS PRESLEY When I get married, it'll be no secret.
ELVIS PRESLEY I've been getting some bad publicity - but you got to expect that.
ELVIS PRESLEY I don't do any vulgar movements.
ELVIS PRESLEY Absolutely. I - you know, he was so that much a part of my life that, you know, Elvis, you know, onc...
PRISCILLA PRESLEY Inner beauty should be the most important part of improving one's self.
PRISCILLA PRESLEY He would use amphetamines to stay awake because he would have late night maneuvers that would go way...
PRISCILLA PRESLEY When one of Lisa's baby teeth fell out here, the tooth fairy left her 50 cents. Another tooth fell o...
PRISCILLA PRESLEY I'm a very shy person. My daughter and I don't do a lot of interviews, but we felt there was a whole...
PRISCILLA PRESLEY You have to remember that when I met Elvis, you know, it wasn't the fanfare that it is today or ...
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DAVE PRESLEY As a person, he was wonderful. He really was a great person. He was full of life. He had a great sen...
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WADE PRESLEY My mom is 79, my dad is 80. I felt they had so much to add, and we didn't want them to pass on and f...
PRISCILLA PRESLEY At times he could be very critical. He didn't like prints on me. He didn't like stripes. He ...
PRISCILLA PRESLEY I lived a really wonderful life with this man and even after our divorce, it was incredible.
PRISCILLA PRESLEY We will continue to add to the Music Wall of Fame as pictures are brought in.
WADE PRESLEY I just look at it, as it's something that I had to do. I had this vision that really, Graceland ...
PRISCILLA PRESLEY It was more that his career was going down again and he was tired of the songs. He was tired of the ...
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DAVE PRESLEY The state's support and understanding of our business needs has been truly amazing, and we look forw...
DAVE PRESLEY No one has really heard my side of the story, the adventure we had together, the transformation that...
PRISCILLA PRESLEY 'Content' is a word that has never sat well with me. Like 'maturity'. They are two w...
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ELVIS MITCHELL The documentary 'Certifiably Jonathan' has engrossing moments in it. How can it not? It'...
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ELVIS MITCHELL Writing about music is like dancing about architecture; it's a really stupid thing to want to do.
ELVIS COSTELLO My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant.
ELVIS COSTELLO Muhammad Ali inside the ring and Muhammad Ali outside the ring were totally different men; his abras...
ELVIS MITCHELL Mike Mignola's 'Hellboy' comics have a drizzly, musty gothic ambience - the same fetid a...
ELVIS MITCHELL The title 'Spirited Away' could refer to what Disney has done on a corporate level to the re...
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ELVIS MITCHELL If Mr. Chan ever makes another movie like 'The Tuxedo,' it's American audiences that wil...
ELVIS MITCHELL What makes 'Pootie Tang' the motion picture enjoyable is its no-brow ambitions; it's a j...
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ELVIS MITCHELL I thought that, as a black audience member, I would like to see something that reflected an experien...
ELVIS MITCHELL And over the last ten years, after my work with the Brodsky Quartet, I had the opportunity to write ...
ELVIS COSTELLO 'Man is an endangered species,' announces one of the titles at the beginning of the sci-fi l...
ELVIS MITCHELL It's true that as Mr. Chan makes more American movies - and gets older - we will never again see...
ELVIS MITCHELL Since most of 'Mean Girls' consists of the outsider Cady observing the tribal rites of her n...
ELVIS MITCHELL I used to be disgusted; now I try to be amused.
ELVIS COSTELLO Berry was a transitional and, to my mind, revolutionary black figure who had to find a place for the...
ELVIS MITCHELL If you start off as a fearsome figure in pop culture, it's almost axiomatic that at some point, ...
ELVIS MITCHELL Natalie Portman's approach to acting demands that she wears her heart on her sleeve so explicitl...
ELVIS MITCHELL I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strateg...
ELVIS COSTELLO Establishing mood through pictorial means is the director Ridley Scott's most notable talent. Th...
ELVIS MITCHELL Duncan Jones has skills; he's an architect of emotional dislocation.
ELVIS MITCHELL We do want to be diverted and be interested and be provoked by popular culture - by art, if we'r...
ELVIS MITCHELL If a movie requires the lead actor to spend a good chunk of his onscreen time talking to himself, an...
ELVIS MITCHELL Often, when Jim Carrey plays it straight, all of the vitality is drained from his face; he looks lik...
ELVIS MITCHELL The director Sofia Coppola's new comic melodrama, 'Lost in Translation,' thoroughly and ...
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ELVIS COSTELLO Don't wear your heart on your sleeve when your remarks are off the cuff.
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ELVIS MITCHELL Like his countryman, Kiefer Sutherland, Seth Rogen has a voice that's 10 years older than he is ...
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ELVIS MITCHELL I had the strength and the finesse there and put it all together.
ELVIS STOJKO 'The Third Man,' directed by Carol Reed and written by Graham Greene, is, quite simply, one ...
ELVIS MITCHELL The Wachowskis' use of space rivals that of musical directors like Gene Kelly and Mark Sandrich.
ELVIS MITCHELL The funniest thing in the world to me is the idea of a white guy in his thirties going, 'Wait - ...
ELVIS MITCHELL Happiness isn't a fortune in a cookie. It's deeper, wider, funnier, and more transporting th...
ELVIS COSTELLO The influence of John Hughes is fully felt in the melodrama 'Donnie Darko.' This first film ...
ELVIS MITCHELL 'Black Hawk Down' wants to be about something, and in the midst of the meticulously staged g...
ELVIS MITCHELL The story of a proud Roman soldier who is sold into slavery and must fight his way back to freedom, ...
ELVIS MITCHELL When an actor commits himself to a role as fully as Russell Crowe does in the grandiose and silly &#...
ELVIS MITCHELL The battle scenes in 'Gladiator' don't have the exultant lift of Hong Kong period-action...
ELVIS MITCHELL People become so deeply attached to the sound of one period that they blow a fuse when you move on. ...
ELVIS COSTELLO 'Infernal Affairs' uses a vibrating terseness usually found in the writer and director Micha...
ELVIS MITCHELL You know what? As a black person, you see so much racism. Films are no different than the government...
ELVIS MITCHELL I hear they're givin' you a bad reputation
just because you've never been denied.
You try ...
ELVIS COSTELLO I find humming is very useful.
ELVIS COSTELLO Though narrative cohesion isn't the strength of 'Mean Girls,' which works better from sc...
ELVIS MITCHELL Before he became 'a working actor,' as he now proudly calls himself, Jamie Dornan initially ...
ELVIS MITCHELL The stoic drama 'A Somewhat Gentle Man' is photographed in a palate of steel gray tones that...
ELVIS MITCHELL It's more dangerous to be a friend or relative of Jackie Chan in the star's movies than it i...
ELVIS MITCHELL When I Was Cruel.
ELVIS COSTELLO It's so funny: whenever there's a new technology introduced, there's always this fear it...
ELVIS MITCHELL I dress well. I travel; I seem to be relatively glamorous for a film guy - which, to me, is like bei...
ELVIS MITCHELL Given how unflinching his productions have been, the 44-year-old McQueen is remarkably gentle and th...
ELVIS MITCHELL It's a petty thing, but I wouldn't join the Scouts when I was a kid, 'cause you had to s...
ELVIS COSTELLO 'Black Hawk Down' has such distinctive visual aplomb that its jingoism starts to feel like p...
ELVIS MITCHELL The pleasantly crude 'Hall Pass' reminds us of what's been missing from movies: Those sq...
ELVIS MITCHELL We were really looking for a fresh sound, and I think you can hear that with the use of electronics ...
ELVIS COSTELLO There was not a lot of rock n' roll in the house. Our parents didn't think it was very groov...
ELVIS COSTELLO We're all just animals. That's all we are, and everything else is just an elaborate justific...
ELVIS COSTELLO