[on Elvis Presley] Elvis was my idol from the beginning and even today when I`m alone I`ll often put on the "King Creole" album. He`s produced the most exciting pop music sounds of all time.
Cliff Richard
I always liked Elvis Presley when I was younger - I told anyone who would listen that I was going to marry that man. I didn`t realize then that he had died.
Isla Fisher
[on Elvis Presley`s inner-circle crew] Well, they were yes men. They overlooked his excesses and the chemicals he was taking. For a Cadillac, they would say the right thing. I said, "God forbid that day comes that you die, Elvis. Red West is gonna write a...
Connie Francis
I`ve got such a broad range of musical interests. I`ve been influenced, from my father`s music and my mum`s so that goes way back to like the `50s. Of course Elvis Presley because every piece of pop music has been influenced by him but then you look at th...
Oliver James
[Hearing about Elvis Presley had Elvis reportedly told one of his backup singers that he thought no one would ever remember him]: That`s incredible. Elvis swims in our minds, and in the emotions all through time.
David Lynch
Though I`m not the first king of controversy, I am the worst thing since Elvis Presley, to do Black Music so selfishly and use it to get myself wealthy.
Eminem
[on Elvis Presley`s death in 1977] There have been many accolades uttered about his talent and performances through the years, all of which I agree to wholeheartedly, I shall miss him dearly as a friend.
Frank Sinatra
[in a 1987 interview] When people nowadays say that [Elvis Presley] was the first white guy to sound black, I have to shake my head; what can you do? At the time of "That`s My Desire", they were saying that I was the only white guy around who sounded blac...
Frankie Laine
All I wanted to do was play "Conrad Birdie"; I really wanted to be like the Elvis Presley guy, and they ended up giving me the lead, "Rosie".
Gina Gershon
You know, [George Bush] is always comparing me to [Elvis Presley] in sort of unflattering ways. I don`t think Bush would have liked Elvis very much, and that`s just another thing that`s wrong with him.
Bill Clinton
I`d done two movies with Elvis Presley. I`d been around Hollywood for a while - and saw how needlessly competitive and negative it could be. It never held my interest.
Dolores Hart
It seems to me hilarious that our government put the face of Elvis Presley on a postage stamp after he died from an overdose of drugs. His fans don`t mention that because they don`t want to give up their myths. They ignore the fact that he was a drug addi...
Marlon Brando
I have fame on the level of a Marilyn Monroe or an Elvis Presley, but part of the reason I didn`t go the way they did was because of my beliefs. People make judgments about Scientology, but often they don`t know what they`re talking about.
John Travolta
That`s my idol, Elvis Presley. If you went to my house, you`d see pictures all over of Elvis. He`s just the greatest entertainer that ever lived. And I think it`s because he had such presence. When Elvis walked into a room, Elvis Presley was in the f---in...
Eddie Murphy
That`s my idol, Elvis Presley. If you went to my house, you`d see pictures all over of Elvis. He`s just the greatest entertainer that ever lived. And I think it`s because he had such presence. When Elvis walked into a room, Elvis Presley was in the f---in...
Eddie Murphy
I`ve seen those famous Nixon [Richard Nixon] transcripts where Elvis [Elvis Presley] actually starts to try to shop us - The Beatles! He`s in the transcript saying - to Richard Nixon, of all people - `Well, sir, these Beatles, they`re very un-American and...
Paul McCartney
[on Elvis Presley in 1957] Sung, played and written for the most part by cretinous goons; and by means of its almost imbecilic reiterations and sly, lewd - in plain fact, dirty - lyrics it manages to be the martial music of every sideburned delinquent on ...
Frank Sinatra
He [Elvis Presley] was an instinctive actor...He was quite bright...he was very intelligent...He was not a punk. He was very elegant, sedate, and refined, and sophisticated.
Walter Matthau
When I first heard [Elvis Presley`s] voice I just knew that I wasn`t going to work for anybody; and nobody was going to be my boss. Hearing him for the first time was like busting out of jail.
Bob Dylan
[on meeting Elvis Presley in 1965] The saddest part is that, years and years later, we found out that he tried to have us banished from America, because he was very big with the FBI. That`s very sad to me, that he felt so threatened that he thought, like ...
Ringo Starr
People are quite shocked when you remind them that Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra never wrote a song that they recorded in their lives, as far as I know.
Robert Wyatt
[on Elvis Presley] Elvis was my idol from the beginning and even today when I`m alone I`ll often put on the "King Creole" album. He`s produced the most exciting pop music sounds of all time.
Cliff Richard
