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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.'


Elvis Presley

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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.
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ELVIS PRESLEY I learned how important it is to entertain people and give them a reason to come and watch you play.
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ELVIS PRESLEY The army teaches boys to think like men.
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ELVIS PRESLEY I hope I didn't bore you too much with my life story.
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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.
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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
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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,
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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
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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.
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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 I was an overnight sensation.
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ELVIS PRESLEY When I get married, it'll be no secret.
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ELVIS PRESLEY I don't do any vulgar movements.
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ELVIS MITCHELL The battle scenes in 'Gladiator' don't have the exultant lift of Hong Kong period-action...
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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