Elvis Presley idézet

Elvis Aaron Presley amerikai énekes, zenész és színész. Mint kulturális ikon, Elvis, a Rock 'n' Roll királya, akit gyakran csak a Királynak neveznek. A világ egyik leghíresebb énekese mind a mai napig. Tizennégyszer jelölték Grammy-díjra, ebből hármat meg is nyert. Emellett 1971-ben a Grammy Életműdíját is neki ítélték.

Karrierje 1954-ben kezdődött, amikor a Sun Recordsszal dolgozott. Ő volt a rockabilly egyik legelső énekese, mely a gyors tempójú country, és a rhythm and blues keveréke. Később a RCA records adta ki dalait és első kislemeze, a Heartbreak Hotel 1956-ban jelent meg, hatalmas sikert aratva. Ezt további slágerek, sőt filmes szerepek követték. 1958-ban katonai szolgálatot teljesített és emiatt átmenetileg felhagyott a zenei karrierrel.

Visszatérése a hatvanas években felemásra sikerült, ugyanis javarészt filmszínészként foglalkoztatták, azonban filmjeit és a hozzájuk tartozó filmzenei albumokat néhány kivétellel a kritikusok nem értékelték túl pozitívan. 1968-ban végül visszatért a zenei színpadra, és hét év kihagyás után ott folytatta, ahol abbahagyta. 1973-ban az ő koncertjét közvetítették először műholdon keresztül. Élete vége felé gyógyszerfüggőségtől szenvedett, amely megviselte szervezetét. Negyvenkét éves korában, 1977-ben hunyt el. Magyar vonatkozás, hogy 2011-ben a Fővárosi Önkormányzat Budapest díszpolgárává avatta az 1956-os forradalom melletti kiállásáért. Wikipedia  

✵ 8. január 1935 – 16. augusztus 1977
Elvis Presley fénykép
Elvis Presley: 46   idézetek 7   Kedvelés

Elvis Presley híres idézetei

Elvis Presley: Idézetek angolul

“The first time that I appeared on stage, it scared me to death. I really didn't know what all the yelling was about.”

Interview (March/April 1972), as quoted in The Leading Men of MGM (2006) by Jane Ellen Wayne, p. 406
Kontextus: 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."

“Animals don't hate, and we're supposed to be smarter than them.”

Változat: Animals don't hate, and we're supposed to be better than them.

“Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine”

Változat: Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

“I'm never going to sing another song I don't believe in. I'm never going to make another picture I don't believe in.”

After hearing Walter Earl Brown's If I Can Dream, the song inspired on Martin Luther King Jr. that would close Elvis' comeback show in 1968, and the phrase was remarked to its producer, Steve Binder. http://elvis-tkc.com/forum2/lofiversion/index.php/t15948.html

“When I was a child, ladies and gentlemen, I was a dreamer. I read comic books, and I was the hero of the comic book. I saw movies, and I was the hero in the movie. So every dream I ever dreamed, has come true a hundred times…”

Acceptance speech for the 1970 Ten Outstanding Young Men of the Nation Award (16 January 1971), published in Elvis — Word for Word: What He Said, Exactly As He Said It (1999) by Jerry Osborne, p. 188
Kontextus: I'd like to thank the Jaycees for electing me as one of their outstanding young men. When I was a child, ladies and gentlemen, I was a dreamer. I read comic books, and I was the hero of the comic book. I saw movies, and I was the hero in the movie. So every dream I ever dreamed, has come true a hundred times... And these gentlemen over here, these are the type of people who care, they're dedicated, and they realize that it is possible that they might be building the kingdom of heaven, it's not just too far fetched, from reality. I'd like to say that I learned very early in life that "Without a song, the day would never end; without a song, a man ain't got a friend; without a song, the road would never bend — without a song." So I keep singing a song. Goodnight. Thank you.

“When things go bad, don't go with them.”

Változat: When things go wrong, don't go with them.
Forrás: Elvis: Ultimate Gospel

“The way she held your hand,
The little things you planned.
Her memory is with you yet,
That's someone you'll never forget.”

That's Someone You Never Forget, from Pot Luck, written by Elvis Presley and Red West (1961)
Song lyrics

“Fingerprints are like values--you leave them all over everything you do”

Változat: Values are like fingerprints. Nobody's are the same, but you leave 'em all over everything you do

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

Another handwriten message on Elvis' King James -Bible http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2188891/Elvis-bible-containing-handwritten-notes-star-expected-fetch-thousands-auction.html
Változat: Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't going away.

“Love me tender, love me sweet,
Never let me go.”

"Love Me Tender" (1956), the lyrics of this song are credited to Presley and co-writer Vera Matson, but were primarily written by Matson's husband, Ken Darby, who when asked why he credited his wife as co-writer with Presley replied "Because she didn't write it either."
Disputed

“It just happened. I like to sing, and well, I just started singing and folks just started listening.”

Pop Chronicles, Show 7 - The All American Boy: Enter Elvis and the rock-a-billies. Part 1 http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc19754/m1/; C. Robert Jennings, " Elvis Lives! http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/doc/155809300.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Feb+18%2C+1968&author=Jennings%2C+C+Robert&pub=Los+Angeles+Times+%281923-Current+File%29&edition=&startpage=M28&desc=ELVIS+LIVES%21", 1968-Feb-18, L.A. Times Magazine, p. M28.
Kontextus: It just happened. I like to sing, and well, I just started singing and folks just started listening. I can't tell folks that I worked and learned and studied, and overcame disappointments, because I didn't.

“The image is one thing and the human being is another…it's very hard to live up to an image.”

Press conference (June 1972),also quoted in Elvis Culture : Fans, Faith, & Image (1999) by Erika Lee Doss, p. 218

“… I just know that, right now, … the biggest record selling business there is is rock and roll.”

Pop Chronicles: Show 55 - Crammer: A lively cram course on the history of rock and some other things http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc19838/m1/, interview recorded 1956 http://web.archive.org/web/20110615153027/http://www.library.unt.edu/music/special-collections/john-gilliland/o-s.

“I like Brando's acting … and James Dean … and Richard Widmark. Quite a few of 'em I like.”

When asked to name his favorite male actors, in "Elvis Exclusive Interview" with Ray Green in Little Rock, Arkansas (16 May 1956), as published in Elvis — Word for Word : What He Said, Exactly As He Said It (1999)

“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.”

Press conference (5 September 1972), also quoted in Paranoia & Power : Fear & Fame of Entertainment Icons (2007) by Gene N Landrum, p. 60

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