Elvis Presley And His Words Of Wisdom

 

Dancing

 

I'm not kidding myself. My voice alone is just an ordinary voice. What people come to see is how I use it. If I stand still while I'm singing, I'm dead, man. I might as well go back to driving a truck.

 

Life

 

Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

 

Adversity

 

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

 

Music

 

"We do two shows a night for five weeks. A lot of times we'll go upstairs and sing until daylight… gospel songs. We grew up with it. It more or less puts your mind at ease. It does mine."

 

"Some people tap their feet, some people snap their fingers, and some people sway back and forth. I just sorta do 'em all together, I guess."

 

"I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to."

 

"There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent."

 

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

 

"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."

 

Stage Fright

 

"I've never gotten over what they call stage--fright. I go through it every show. I'm pretty concerned, I'm pretty much thinking about the show. I never get completely comfortable with it, and I don't let the people around me get comfortable with it, in that I remind them that it's a new crowd out there, it's a new audience, and they haven't seen us before. So it's got to be like the first time we go on."

 

"The first time that I appeared on stage, it scared me to death. I really didn't know what all the yelling was about. I didn't realize that my body was moving. It's a natural thing to me. So to the manager backstage I said, 'What'd I do? What'd I do?' And he said, 'Whatever it is, go back and do it again'."

 

Other Actors

 

I don't want to read about some of these actresses who are around today. They sound like my niece in Scarsdale. I love my niece in Scarsdale, but I won't buy tickets to see her act.

 

Philosophy

 

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

 

Personal Life

 

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

 

Happiness

 

I believe the key to happiness is: someone to love, something to do, and something to look forward to.

 

Criticism

 

Don't criticize what you don't understand, son. You never walked in that man's shoes.

 

Humanity

 

The image is one thing and the human being is another. It's very hard to live up to an image.

 

Philosophy

 

I ain't no saint, but I've tried never to do anything that would hurt my family or offend God. I figure all any kid needs is hope and the feeling he or she belongs. If I could do or say anything that would give some kid that feeling, I would believe I had contributed something to the world.