Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t going away.
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
Animals don’t hate, and we’re supposed to be better than them.
Be ye innocent as doves yet wise as serphants” new testament quoted by Elvis Presley and applied to karate
Don’t criticize what you don’t understand, son. You never walked in that man’s shoes.
The sun’s down and the moon’s pretty – it’s time to ramble.
A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage. It’s my favorite part of the business, live concerts.
I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.
I hope I didn’t bore you too much with my life story.
It’s human nature to gripe, but I’m going ahead and doing the best I can.
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.’
I don’t know anything about music. In my line you don’t have to.
Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t goin’ away.
Until we meet again, may God bless you as he has blessed me.
Whatever I will become will be what God has chosen for me.
When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.
I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were.
The next thing I knew, I was out of the service and making movies again. My first picture was called, GI Blues. I thought I was still in the army.
I like to sing ballads the way Eddie Fisher does and the way Perry Como does. But the way I’m singing now is what makes the money.
Those people in New York are not gonna change me none.
More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me.
Just because I managed to do a little something, I don’t want anyone back home to think I got the big head.