Elvis Presley słynne cytaty
„Ja nie jestem Królem. Jezus Chrystus jest Królem. Ja jestem tylko wokalistą.”
I am not the King. Jesus Christ is the King. I’m just an entertainer. (ang.)
„Jestem jedynakiem, ale mam nadzieję, że moje dzieci nie zaznają uczucia samotności.”
bliźniaczy brat Presleya – Jesse Garon – zmarł wkrótce po narodzinach.
The thruth about me (sierpień 1956)
„Gdybym tej muzyki nie czuł, nie próbowałbym jej śpiewać.”
Źródło: Leszek C. Strzeszewski, Elvis, op. cit., s. 61.
Elvis Presley Cytaty o ludziach
„Chcę zabawiać ludzi. To całe moje życie. Do mojego ostatniego tchu.”
I want to entertain people. That’s my whole life. To my last breath. (ang.)
o ciężkiej pracy nad koncertami.
Źródło: Leszek C. Strzeszewski, Elvis, op. cit., s. 124.
Źródło: Leszek C. Strzeszewski, Elvis, op. cit., s. 122.
Elvis Presley Cytaty o myślach
„Nie myślę, żebym robił coś złego. To, co robię, to tylko śpiew i muzyka.”
reakcja na głosy krytyki.
Źródło: Leszek C. Strzeszewski, Elvis, op. cit., s. 29.
„Jestem gotowy stawić się do armii. Myślę, że będzie to pożyteczne doświadczenie.”
jedyny komentarz ws. powołania do wojska w 1957.
Źródło: Leszek C. Strzeszewski, Elvis, op. cit., s. 40.
Źródło: Leszek C. Strzeszewski, Elvis, op. cit., s. 102, 103.
„Myślę, że jest to mój najlepszy film, jaki nakręciłem w ciągu ostatnich 10 lat.”
o filmie Elvis: Tak to jest.
Źródło: Leszek C. Strzeszewski, Elvis, op. cit., s. 125.
Elvis Presley cytaty
odpowiedź na pytanie o dalsze plany po wyjściu z wojska.
Źródło: Leszek C. Strzeszewski, Elvis, op. cit., s. 57.
„To tak, jak gdyby słońce przestało świecić. Czuję się zagubiony bez niej.”
w liście do Dolores Hart o śmierci swojej matki w 1958.
Źródło: Leszek C. Strzeszewski, Elvis, op. cit., s. 49.
„Czyż ona nie jest tak piękna jak matka?”
o córce.
Źródło: Leszek C. Strzeszewski, Elvis, op. cit., s. 134.
Źródło: konferencja prasowa, 22 września 1958, częściowo zapisana na płycie Elvis Sails
Źródło: Leszek C. Strzeszewski, Elvis, PWM, Kraków 1986, s. 63.
o swoich rodzicach.
Źródło: Leszek C. Strzeszewski, Elvis, op. cit., s. 48.
Źródło: Leszek C. Strzeszewski, Elvis, op. cit., s. 102.
The thruth about me (sierpień 1956)
„Są bardzo do siebie podobne. Jedyne, co je różni, to język.”
pytany o różnice między Amerykankami i Niemkami.
Źródło: Leszek C. Strzeszewski, Elvis, op. cit., s. 102.
„Nie wciela się do armii Beethovena.”
jedno z haseł protestujących przed powołaniem Presleya do wojska.
Źródło: Leszek C. Strzeszewski, Elvis, op. cit., s. 39.
Źródło: Leszek C. Strzeszewski, Elvis, op. cit., s. 122.
Źródło: Leszek C. Strzeszewski, Elvis, op. cit., s. 102.
Elvis Presley: Cytaty po angielsku
Interview (March/April 1972), as quoted in The Leading Men of MGM (2006) by Jane Ellen Wayne, p. 406
Kontekst: 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.”
Wariant: Animals don't hate, and we're supposed to be better than them.
“When things go bad, don't go with them.”
Wariant: When things go wrong, don't go with them.
Źródło: Elvis: Ultimate Gospel
“Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine”
Wariant: Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.
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
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
Kontekst: 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.
That's Someone You Never Forget, from Pot Luck, written by Elvis Presley and Red West (1961)
Song lyrics
You'll Be Gone, written by Elvis Presley, Red West and Charlie Hodge (1961)
Song lyrics
“Fingerprints are like values--you leave them all over everything you do”
Wariant: 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 <br class="br">Wariant: Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't going away.
September 30, 1974. South Bend, IN. Notre Dame Ath Center. <br class="br">Źródło: http://www.elvisconcerts.com/real/oct74-01.htm <br class="br">Źródło: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEZpSFnDxRg
“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
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. <br class="br">Kontekst: 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
“To judge a man by his weakest link or deed is like judging the power of the ocean by one wave.”
Handwriten message on Elvis' King James -Bible
“… 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)
Press conference (5 September 1972), also quoted in Paranoia & Power : Fear & Fame of Entertainment Icons (2007) by Gene N Landrum, p. 60
