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I know I'm not going to sing like Aretha Franklin or Elvis Presley or any of those people.
George Thorogood
People
Elvis
Elvis Presley
Those
Franklin
Aretha
Aretha Franklin
Like
Know
Sing
Any
Going
God's the final judge for Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash too. That's solely in the hands of God.
Johnny Cash
God
Judge
Too
Final
Elvis
Elvis Presley
Solely
Cash
Johnny
Johnny Cash
Hands
It's pretty amazing to me that my first hit record was an Elvis Presley record.
Mac Davis
Me
Amazing
First
Elvis
Elvis Presley
Record
Pretty
Hit
Hit Record
I came close to signing Elvis Presley. I offered $25,000 for his contract and they asked for $45,000 and I just didn't have the other $20,000.
Ahmet Ertegun
Other
Elvis
Elvis Presley
Signing
Came
His
Contract
Close
Offered
Just
Asked
I would like to do the Elvis Presley.
Andy Kaufman
Elvis
Elvis Presley
Would
Like
I saw an Elvis Presley movie Jailhouse Rock, where he gets out of jail and makes his own records and takes them to the radio stations himself. And then, he puts records in the store. After seeing that, I made records an put them in stores.
Bobby Vinton
Made
Own
Elvis
Saw
Elvis Presley
Stations
Out
Seeing
Records
He
Put
Puts
Takes
Himself
Makes
Rock
His
Gets
Jail
Where
Store
Movie
Stores
After
Them
Then
Radio
Radio Stations
I love Jimi Hendrix obviously, and Jimmy Page and Prince. And also Elvis Presley is a really great guitar player. I don't think he ever took lessons; he was piecing it together himself. But he has great rhythm. And rhythm, to me, you can use it to your advantage if you're not all over the fretboard.
Brittany Howard
Love
Great
Me
You
Together
Guitar
Think
Took
Elvis
Jimi Hendrix
Elvis Presley
Jimmy
Guitar Player
He
Advantage
Over
Prince
Also
Obviously
Himself
Rhythm
Really
Page
Use
Your
Lessons
Hendrix
Ever
Player
I've loved music always, and my music fire was lit by Elvis Presley, really, and all that was happening back then.
David Lynch
Music
Fire
Back
Elvis
Elvis Presley
Always
Lit
Loved
Happening
Then
Really
I was raised on Elvis Presley and Buddy Holly and discovered the Stray Cats when I was 11 or 12 years old.
Drake Bell
Cats
Old
Elvis
Elvis Presley
Buddy
Buddy Holly
Years
Discovered
Holly
Stray
Raised
Music, for me, is as important as fashion. The first visuals I remember are Elvis Presley, David Bowie, New Romantics, and different punk bands.
Edward Enninful
Music
Fashion
Me
Remember
Punk
First
Important
Elvis
Elvis Presley
Visuals
David
David Bowie
New
Bowie
Bands
Different
Romantics
I'd been to Memphis before, but we stayed out of Memphis early on in the late 70s for obvious reasons. People were very sensitive about Elvis Presley, and my stage name obviously would be provocative to some people in that area at that time.
Elvis Costello
Time
People
Some People
Before
Stage
Late
Elvis
Elvis Presley
Out
Would
Would-Be
Memphis
Stayed
Some
About
Area
Name
Obvious
Obviously
Were
Been
Very
Provocative
Sensitive
Reasons
Early
Ice Cube went straight outta Compton to hearing, 'Are we there yet?' Eddie Murphy blew up striding across the stage in a red leather ensemble that would have made Elvis Presley chuckle, yet is probably best known to anyone born in the 21st century as the overly chatty donkey from 'Shrek.'
Elvis Mitchell
Best
Made
Stage
Chuckle
Elvis
Elvis Presley
Ensemble
Would
Born
Red
Blew
Eddie
Eddie Murphy
Known
Cube
Leather
Overly
Hearing
Up
Donkey
Anyone
Ice
Ice Cube
Straight
Century
Across
Shrek
Murphy
I like visual images and there are certainly other bands that have strong visual images going all the way back to Elvis Presley, but it's kind of like that's never really been my bag. Probably because I'm too shy.
Frank Black
Strong
Too
Other
Back
Elvis
Elvis Presley
Way
Kind
Visual
Never
Bag
Like
Because
Been
Bands
Going
Really
Certainly
Images
Shy
Elvis Presley, The Everly Brothers, and a lot of American artists were my greatest influences.
Gordon Waller
Elvis
Elvis Presley
Brothers
Greatest
Were
Lot
American
Artists
Influences
Elvis Presley, you can't define him in a couple of sentences, but he was a country boy and he was very respectful.
Jerry Leiber
You
Country
Elvis
Elvis Presley
Define
Respectful
He
Country Boy
Couple
Him
Boy
Very
Sentences
The first rock stars were incredibly theatrical. Little Richard and Chuck Berry and Elvis Presley - they were theater artists.
John Cameron Mitchell
First
Stars
Incredibly
Chuck
Chuck Berry
Elvis
Elvis Presley
Berry
Rock
Rock Stars
Were
Artists
Theater
Theatrical
Little
Richard
Little Richard
But I still do believe that there are useful things to say about Elvis Presley, including what his own ordinariness as a poor Southerner says about 20th-century hero-making.
John Shelton Reed
Own
Believe
Elvis
Elvis Presley
Say
Says
About
Still
His
Southerner
Ordinariness
Poor
Useful
Including
Things
One gets the impression that Elvis Presley does what his business advisors think will be most profitable. My advice to them: Put Elvis Presley in the studio with a bunch of good, contemporary rockers, lock the studio up, and tell him he can't come out until he's done made an album that rocks from beginning to end.
Jon Landau
Good
Business
Will
Made
Advice
Beginning
Think
Elvis
Elvis Presley
Lock
Out
Tell
He
Studio
Put
Come
Most
Contemporary
Until
Him
Advisor
Does
His
Rockers
Rocks
Impression
End
Up
Bunch
Gets
Done
Them
Profitable
Album
I was madly in love with Elvis Presley. Dad wasn't into it at all, at least not for himself as a performer. He used to say, 'Mr. Cole does not rock n' roll.'
Natalie Cole
Love
Elvis
Elvis Presley
Say
Madly
He
Performer
Himself
Does
Rock
Least
Rock-N-Roll
Roll
Used
Dad
I have written for, very fortunately, some great singers from Frank Sinatra to Elvis Presley.
Neil Sedaka
Great
Elvis
Elvis Presley
Frank
Frank Sinatra
Some
Written
Sinatra
Singers
Very
Fortunately
I collect items like Elvis Presley clock radios and '50s memorabilia. It inspires a lot of my imagery. I like tasteful trash.
Pete Burns
Elvis
Elvis Presley
Collect
Memorabilia
Inspires
Like
Lot
Clock
Items
Tasteful
Trash
Imagery
The fact is Jerry Weintraub, the handsome, bearish movie producer, the man with the long career, who worked with Arthur Godfrey and Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra and George Clooney, is a great storyteller - he's this as much as he's anything else. He takes time telling stories, too.
Rich Cohen
Time
Great
Man
Long
Too
Else
Elvis
Elvis Presley
Frank
Frank Sinatra
Telling
Long Career
Fact
He
Takes
Sinatra
George
George Clooney
Clooney
Arthur
Handsome
Movie
Stories
Anything
Anything Else
Storyteller
Worked
Much
Producer
Who
Jerry
Career
When I was in high school in the '50s you were supposed to be an Elvis Presley, a James Dean, a Marlon Brando or a Kingston Trio type in a button-down shirt headed for the fraternities at Stanford or Cal.
Robert Hass
You
School
Type
Elvis
Elvis Presley
Marlon Brando
High
Trio
High School
Headed
Cal
Supposed
Dean
Were
Shirt
Brando
James
James Dean
Stanford
Over the years, I've come to realize that writing 'I Ain't Living Long Like This' was an exercise in combined musical influence, mostly that of Hank Williams, Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, the Beatles, and Bob Dylan - artists no one has ever heard of.
Rodney Crowell
Beatles
Writing
Long
Living
Chuck
Chuck Berry
Elvis
Elvis Presley
Musical
Williams
Berry
No-One
Over
Combined
Come
Like
Mostly
Exercise
Years
Heard
Lee
Artists
Hank
Hank Williams
Influence
Dylan
Bob
Bob Dylan
Realize
Jerry
Ever
Lewis
Every once in awhile, the world will push up an Elvis Presley or a Beatles. But that's really outside the realm of show business.
Roy Orbison
Business
Beatles
World
Will
Every
Elvis
Once
Elvis Presley
Push
Outside
Up
Really
Realm
Show
Show Business
Awhile
My own musical ambitions were born when I was five, watching the Ed Sullivan Show on TV. When Elvis Presley burst on to the screen, singing 'Don't Be Cruel,' I felt my first sexual thrill, though I didn't know what it was at the time.
Suzi Quatro
Time
First
Singing
Ambition
Own
Sullivan
Elvis
Elvis Presley
Musical
Though
TV
Sexual
Born
My Own
Thrill
Cruel
Know
Ed Sullivan
Felt
Were
Five
Screen
Burst
Show
Watching
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