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Old 08-24-2007, 02:25 AM   #6
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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.
Elvis Presley

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
Elvis Presley

After a hard day of basic training, you could eat a rattlesnake.
Elvis Presley

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.
Elvis Presley

Anita's just a friend. If I take anyone out a couple of times, the newspapers make a big deal out of it.
Elvis Presley

Colonel Parker will have to answer. Eventually, I'll tour Europe.
Elvis Presley

Don't you worry about the Colonel. I'll take care of it.
Elvis Presley

Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.
Elvis Presley

From the time I was a kid, I always knew something was going to happen to me. Didn't know exactly what.
Elvis Presley

I did the Ed Sullivan show four times. I did the Steve Allen show. I did the Jackie Gleason show.
Elvis Presley

I didn't know that there were any radio stations in Nova Scotia.
Elvis Presley

I don't do any vulgar movements.
Elvis Presley

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
Elvis Presley

I don't think I'm bad for people. If I did think I was bad for people, I would go back to driving a truck, and I really mean this.
Elvis Presley

I don't want to read about some of these actresses who are around today. They sound like my niece in Scarsdale. I love my niece in Scarsdale, but I won't buy tickets to see her act.
Elvis Presley

I guess it's just something God gave me. And I'm grateful.
Elvis Presley

I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.
Elvis Presley

I have no use for bodyguards, but I have very specific use for two highly trained certified public accountants.
Elvis Presley

I hope I didn't bore you too much with my life story.
Elvis Presley

I knew by heart all the dialogue of James Dean's films; I could watch Rebel Without a Cause a hundred times over.
Elvis Presley

I learned how important it is to entertain people and give them a reason to come and watch you play.
Elvis Presley

I like entertaining people. I really miss it.
Elvis Presley

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.
Elvis Presley

I miss my singing career very much.
Elvis Presley

I never expected to be anybody important.
Elvis Presley

I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were.
Elvis Presley

I think I have something tonight that's not quite correct for evening wear. Blue suede shoes.
Elvis Presley

I want to make amends. I really missed working live, in front of an audience, that's why I'm here.
Elvis Presley

I want to tell you that it's been swell talking to you, and you make a lot of sense.
Elvis Presley

I was an only child, and Mother was always right with me all my life. I used to get very angry at her when I was growing up-it's a natural thing.
Elvis Presley

I was an overnight sensation.
Elvis Presley

I was training to be an electrician. I suppose I got wired the wrong way round somewhere along the line.
Elvis Presley

I'd just like to be treated like a regular customer.
Elvis Presley

I'll never feel comfortable taking a strong drink, and I'll never feel easy smoking a cigarette. I just don't think those things are right for me.
Elvis Presley

I'll never make it, it will never happen, because they're never going to hear me 'cause they're screaming all the time.
Elvis Presley

I'll stay in Memphis.
Elvis Presley

I'm looking forward to Germany, to seeing the country and meeting a lot of the people.
Elvis Presley

I'm no hillbilly singer.
Elvis Presley

I'm not going to quit. And I'm not going to take lessons because to be me.
Elvis Presley

I'm not trying to be sexy. It's just my way of expressing myself when I move around.
Elvis Presley

I'm so nervous. I've always been nervous, ever since I was a kid.
Elvis Presley

I'm strictly for Stevenson. I don't dig the intellectual bit, but I'm telling you, man, he knows the most.
Elvis Presley

I'm trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It's so easy to get turned.
Elvis Presley

I've been getting some bad publicity - but you got to expect that.
Elvis Presley

I've never written a song in my life. It's all a big hoax.
Elvis Presley

I've tried to lead a straight, clean life, not set any kind of a bad example.
Elvis Presley

It's human nature to gripe, but I'm going ahead and doing the best I can.
Elvis Presley

Just because I managed to do a little something, I don't want anyone back home to think I got the big head.
Elvis Presley

Later on they send me to Hollywood. To make movies. It was all new to me. I was only 21 years old.
Elvis Presley

Man, I really like Vegas.
Elvis Presley

Man, that record came out and was real big in Memphis. They started playing it, and it got real big. Don't know why-the lyrics had no meaning.
Elvis Presley

More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me.
Elvis Presley

My movements, ma'am, are all leg movements. I don't do nothing with my body.
Elvis Presley

Now I'm back and on the right road.
Elvis Presley

People ask me where I got my singing style. I didn't copy my style from anybody.
Elvis Presley

Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.
Elvis Presley

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.'
Elvis Presley

Saturday night is our biggest night, and almost every Sunday we have a matinee or we're on the road.
Elvis Presley

Since the beginning, it was just the same. The only difference, the crowds are bigger now.
Elvis Presley

Some people tap their feet, some people snap their fingers, and some people sway back and forth. I just shorta do'em all together, I guess.
Elvis Presley

That's why I hate to get started in these jam sessions. I'm always the last one to leave.
Elvis Presley

The army teaches boys to think like men.
Elvis Presley

The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.
Elvis Presley

The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I'm doin' now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them.
Elvis Presley

The image is one thing and the human being is another. It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.
Elvis Presley

The Lord can give, and the Lord can take away. I might be herding sheep next year.
Elvis Presley

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.
Elvis Presley

There are too many people that depend on me. I'm too obligated. I'm in too far to get out.
Elvis Presley

They had me singing to a dog and filmed me from here up.
Elvis Presley

They put me on television. And the whole thing broke loose. It was wild, I tell ya for sure.
Elvis Presley

They put the record out and it got pretty big in the South. But I still had my job, driving a truck daytimes and working nightclubs at night.
Elvis Presley

Those movies sure got me into a rut.
Elvis Presley

Those people in New York are not gonna change me none.
Elvis Presley

Too much TV hurts movies.
Elvis Presley

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.
Elvis Presley

Until we meet again, may God bless you as he has blessed me.
Elvis Presley

We're the perfect combination. Colonel's an old carny, and me, I'm off the wall.
Elvis Presley

Whatever I will become will be what God has chosen for me.
Elvis Presley

When I get married, it'll be no secret.
Elvis Presley

When I got outta High School I was driving a truck. I was just a poor boy from Memphis, Memphis.
Elvis Presley

When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.
Elvis Presley

When I'm out there, I do what they want to hear. When I'm back here, I can do what I want to do.
Elvis Presley

You went to the papers and tried to make me look bad. If you had come to me, we would have worked things out.
Elvis Presley
A man sees what he wants to see, And disregards the rest.
Paul Simon

All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.
Paul Simon

An artistic bent is innate. Then there are those who work on their technique, because good art has a lot to do with technique. And that can be learned.
Paul Simon

Anybody can do bad work, but not everybody does good work.
Paul Simon

Artie is a singer, and I'm a writer and player and a singer. We didn't work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that.
Paul Simon

Artie travels all the time. The rehearsals were just miserable. Artie and I fought all the time. He didn't want to do the show with my band; he just wanted me on acoustic guitar.
Paul Simon

As I got older, I got better-looking. Which is the reverse of what happens to most people. I lost weight. I worked on my hair so it would look better.
Paul Simon

As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death.
Paul Simon

Being an artist doesn't mean that you're a good artist. That was the bargain I first made with myself: I'd say, I'm an artist, but I'm not really very good.
Paul Simon

Between the ages of 15 and 22, I had made only one very minor hit, so I expected everything to be a flop. I was utterly amazed that The Sound of Silence was a big hit.
Paul Simon

Both of us had a significant amount of studio time prior to our Columbia recording days. I did a lot of demos.
Paul Simon

By the time I was 12 or 13, I felt that I was special, because I could play the guitar and write songs.
Paul Simon

Central Park was done because there was an overwhelming demand. People seemed to like those songs, which I found surprising, because I felt they were dated.
Paul Simon

Columbia Records was reluctant to stop our patterns of work because they were successful.
Paul Simon

During the psychedelic days, records faded in and out; things became other things.
Paul Simon

Everybody wanted to have two guys who had their differences and split up and then came back together and resolved them and lived happily ever after.
Paul Simon

Facts can be turned into art if one is artful enough.
Paul Simon

Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone.
Paul Simon

Having a track record to live up to and the history of successes had become a hindrance. It becomes harder to break out of what people expect you to do.
Paul Simon

How much can you do with two voices? You can sing thirds or you can sing fifths or you can do a background harmony.
Paul Simon

I always get very calm with baseball.
Paul Simon

I always looked for partnership because I probably felt I couldn't do it myself. I would have been afraid or embarrassed. So I looked to work with a bunch of people.
Paul Simon

I didn't get how big it was until I went home, turned on the television and saw it on all the news, and later that night on the front pages of all the newspapers. Then I got it.
Paul Simon

I don't believe what the papers are saying They're just out to capture my dime, Exaggerating this, exaggerating that.
Paul Simon

I don't consider myself to be a major talent, so the only solace I can take is to hope I'm growing.
Paul Simon

I don't feel any pressure from fans. But I'm always in some kind of state of emotional turmoil. I would not describe myself as happy-go-lucky. That's not to say that I'm not happy.
Paul Simon

I don't like fashion. It's very heartless.
Paul Simon

I don't think that Simon and Garfunkel as a live act compares to Simon and Garfunkel as a studio act.
Paul Simon

I don't very often think I've done a good job. I don't like the majority of what I do. I shouldn't say I don't like it, but I'm not satisfied with almost everything that I do.
Paul Simon

I feel I should try to reveal. When you hit it right, you produce an emotional response in the listener that can be cathartic. When you're wrong, you're soppy, sentimental.
Paul Simon

I lived in an attached house. My father used to drive into the wrong driveway all the time. He'd say, Damn it, how do you tell one of these houses from another?
Paul Simon

I question what emotion Manilow touches. People are entertained by him. But are they emotionally moved? I don't believe anything that Barry Manilow sings.
Paul Simon

I rate each album as better than the last one. That's how I see it.
Paul Simon

I stopped smoking dope. It made things worse. I didn't smoke another joint for 11 years.
Paul Simon

I suppose an artist takes the elements of his life and rearranges them and then has them perceived by others as though they were the elements of their lives.
Paul Simon

I think Bridge Over Troubled Water was a very good song. Artie sang it beautifully. The Boxer was a really nice record. But I don't think I've written any great songs.
Paul Simon

I think I have a superior brain and an inferior stature, if you really want to get brutal about it.
Paul Simon

I try to open up my heart as much as I can and keep a real keen eye out that I don't get sentimental. I think we're all afraid to reveal our hearts. It's not at all in fashion.
Paul Simon

I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It's chicken and eggs. And I said, I gotta use that one.
Paul Simon

I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only thing I won't do is change the essence of my work.
Paul Simon

I'm more interested in what I discover than what I invent.
Paul Simon

I'm not in it for the money. I like music. I love to write music. I can't imagine myself not playing or singing or writing. It would just drive me crazy if I didn't.
Paul Simon

If it were a drug and I could buy it, I'd spend all my money on it.
Paul Simon

If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, and that's what I'm looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything.
Paul Simon

Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.
Paul Simon

It takes me a certain amount of time to write. I'm not very prolific.
Paul Simon

It was hard and boring to travel so much. But when we did go out, we went to places we wanted to play, Paris or London.
Paul Simon

It's a big error to think that because you like somebody's work, you're going to like him.
Paul Simon

It's pointless to be critical of your stuff once it's done. I don't spend a lot of time agonising over it. It's of no importance once it's finished.
Paul Simon

Listen to the sound of silence.
Paul Simon

Mrs. Robinson is a little dated now, but it has nothing to do with Joe DiMaggio.
Paul Simon

Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.
Paul Simon

My life so common it disappears and sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears.
Paul Simon

My voice is my improvisational instrument, the melody instrument. The guitar is harmonic structure. I'm not a good enough guitarist to improvise on it.
Paul Simon

My whole artistic life has always been about change, change, change, move on, move on. It's the only thing I find interesting.
Paul Simon

Not every song I write is ecstasy. And it can happen only one time. After that, when you sing the same melody and words, it's pleasure, but you don't get wiped out.
Paul Simon

One of the things that upset me was some of the criticism leveled at Simon and Garfunkel. I always took exception to it, but actually I agree with a lot of it.
Paul Simon

People often called us perfectionists, but we were not looking for perfection. We were looking for some kind of magic in the music.
Paul Simon

Someone told me it's all happening at the zoo.
Paul Simon

Sometimes you fit the words right to the track. You play with the feel of the track.
Paul Simon

The bigger you get, the more of a strain it is, because you're less used to compromising. But in a partnership you have to compromise. You're not the boss.
Paul Simon

The moment of euphoria is when you have the breakthrough and you say it, and then begin to shape and deal with what I've created.
Paul Simon

The reason I'd been blocked was that I felt what I did was of absolutely no importance.
Paul Simon

The record company stay out of my way. Whenever the record is finished, they take it.
Paul Simon

The thought that life could be better is woven indelibly into our hearts and our brains.
Paul Simon

The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.
Paul Simon

There must be 50 ways to leave your lover.
Paul Simon

There's something about the sound of a train that's very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful.
Paul Simon

Those English songs tend to sound like they have a connection. A lot of these songs are written in the past, and I proceeded to write more about alienation.
Paul Simon

To get the stuff out of you, especially if what you're dealing with is yourself, requires you to open up and touch tender spots. You have to be anesthetized a little bit.
Paul Simon

Two things come to mind that are euphoric for me. One is the universal euphoric: sex. The other is when I create something that moves me.
Paul Simon

We got on American Bandstand, where kids would dance to a record and then rate it. We called ourselves Tom and Jerry. I was Jerry.
Paul Simon

We had just finished working on this television special, which really wiped us out. We were very tired.
Paul Simon

We had many more points of agreement than we had points of difference, but we did differ, and the bigger we got, the more insistent we got that each one of us should have his way.
Paul Simon

We just did what we'd done when we were an act in the '60s. But I found it impossible to hold a dialogue with 500,000 people. In a certain sense, it was numbing.
Paul Simon

We knew each other for so long that we were able to talk in a virtual shorthand. And our senses of humour were the same.
Paul Simon

We were always able to sing and blend well together; that's our gift. But aside from that, we're really two different guys.
Paul Simon

We'd been singing since we were 13, so we really knew each other's voice. And we didn't have too many problems in compromising.
Paul Simon

We've survived by believing our life is going to get better.
Paul Simon

When I began making my own albums, the songs became funkier. They were more about the streets.
Paul Simon

When I left CBS, it became company policy there to make life as difficult as possible for me. It ended only when I threatened to subpoena people.
Paul Simon

When I was 15, I made a solo record. It made Artie very unhappy. He looked upon it as something of a betrayal.
Paul Simon

When we came into the studio I became more and more me, making the tracks and choosing the musicians, partly because a great deal of the time during Bridge, Artie wasn't there.
Paul Simon

Who am I to blow against the wind?
Paul Simon

Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?
Paul Simon

Without Arthur's voice, I never would have enjoyed that success.
Paul Simon

You start with an impulse and go to what your ear likes.
Paul Simon

You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.
Paul Simon

 
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