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“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 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." “Don’t criticize what you don’t understand, son. You never walked in that
man’s shoes.” “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...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.”
“We do two shows a night for five weeks. A lotta 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.” “I’ve never gotten over what they call stagefright. 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’.”
“Man, I was tame compared to what they do now. Are you kidding? I didn’t do
anything but just jiggle.” “...the image is one thing and the human being is another...it’s very hard to
live up to an image.” “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.” “ ‘Til we meet you again, may God bless you. Adios.” Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
I have no use for bodyguards, but I have a very special use for two highly
trained certified public accountants.
I knew by heart all the dialogue of James Dean's films; I could watch "Rebel
Without a Cause" a hundred times over.
I've had the boyhood thing of being Elvis. Now I want to be with my best
friend, and my best friend's my wife. Who could ask for anything more?
If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be
dead.
People ask me where I got my singing style. I didn't copy my style from
anybody . . . . Country music was always an influence on my kind of music.
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