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My chances of being PM are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars, or my being reincarnated as an olive.
Boris Johnson
Good
Elvis
Finding
Mars
About
Being
Reincarnated
Olive
Chances
I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding Elvis.
Boris Johnson
Elvis
Minister
Finding
Prime
Prime Minister
Becoming
Frisbee
Being
Much
Chance
Elvis may be the King of Rock and Roll, but I am the Queen.
Little Richard
Queen
King
Elvis
Rock
Rock And Roll
Am
Roll
May
Hip-hop kind of absorbed rock in terms of the attitude and the whole point of why rock was important music. Young people felt like rock music was theirs, from Elvis to the Beatles to the Ramones to Nirvana. This was theirs; it wasn't their parents'. I think hip-hop became the musical style that embraces that mentality.
Chris Cornell
Attitude
Music
Beatles
People
Parents
Important
Style
Young
Think
Ramones
Elvis
Musical
Nirvana
Kind
Embraces
Mentality
Point
Absorb
Like
Terms
Became
Felt
Rock
Hip-Hop
Rock Music
Young People
Whole
Why
By the time I was 25 or 26, I would have earned a million, but if you looked in the bank account, it's not there because I've spent it. That's what it's there for. I don't want to be the richest bloke in the graveyard. Look at Elvis.
Eric Bristow
Time
You
Earned
Elvis
Spent
Would
Look
Looked
Because
Bloke
Account
Bank
Bank Account
Want
Richest
Graveyard
Million
By The Time
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
I think that one of Elvis' charms was that he could sing almost any kind of music. I am sure that in his heart, which I don't know what was there, but just from his singing I could feel that he was very partial to gospel music.
Patti Page
Music
Heart
Singing
Gospel Music
Think
Elvis
Kind
Charms
Could
He
Partial
Almost
Feel
Know
Sing
Sure
Gospel
Am
His
Very
Any
Just
Which
Without Elvis none of us could have made it.
Buddy Holly
Made
Elvis
Could
Without
None
Us
They say Elvis is dead. I say, no, you're looking at him. Elvis isn't dead; he just changed color.
Dennis Rodman
You
Looking
Changed
Elvis
Say
Color
He
Dead
Him
Just
They Say
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
Don't Cry Daddy is a pretty sad song. He got to the end of it and it was just real quiet and Elvis says, I'm gonna cut that someday for my daddy. And, by God, he did. He lived up to his word.
Mac Davis
Sad
God
Song
Word
Elvis
Says
Pretty
Someday
He
Cry
Got
Real
His
End
Up
Quiet
Did
Just
Gonna
Cut
Daddy
Lived
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'm not Elvis. I don't get chased by paparazzi.
Albert Brooks
Elvis
Paparazzi
Chased
Get
I would like to do the Elvis Presley.
Andy Kaufman
Elvis
Elvis Presley
Would
Like
Music ignited a fiery, pent-up passion inside Elvis and inside me. It was an odd, embarrassing, funny, inspiring, and wonderful sensation.
Ann-Margret
Funny
Music
Me
Wonderful
Passion
Elvis
Embarrassing
Inside
Inspiring
Odd
Sensation
Fiery
To some extent, the idea that rock 'n roll used to have this sort of free antediluvian identity, frolicking in the 1950s with Elvis or something, is totally wrong. It's insane. Elvis' relationship with Colonel Parker, his manager, was one of the most possibly corrupt, certainly lucrative, and intense business partnerships ever in rock n' roll.
Ann Powers
Relationship
Business
Free
Elvis
Insane
Possibly
Corrupt
Some
Totally
Something
Colonel
Parker
Wrong
Idea
Most
Identity
Sort
Partnerships
Rock
Rock-N-Roll
His
Roll
Intense
Manager
Used
Certainly
Lucrative
Ever
Extent
There's this Bruno Mars guy. I met him in Hawaii when was doing Elvis imitations at the age of about five or six years old. There's a lot of old school in him. He's got a depth that I just love.
Bill Medley
Love
Age
School
Old
Met
Imitations
Elvis
Mars
About
Guy
Hawaii
He
Him
Got
Doing
Years
Lot
Five
Six
Just
Depth
Old School
The friendship I had with Elvis began to take shape in 1968 when I was recording in Memphis. I'd record during the day, and Elvis would send one of his guys over to bring me to Graceland at night. Everything you've heard about Graceland during Elvis's glory days is true and then some.
Bill Medley
Friendship
Day
Me
You
Recording
Everything
Elvis
Would
Memphis
Record
Some
About
Guys
Shape
Take
Had
True
Over
Days
Glory
His
Heard
Began
Send
Then
Bring
Night
Elvis was a great guy. We'd just horse around together or go to see a movie. He drove me around Graceland in a golf cart. He was a fan of our music and was curious about how I sounded so black.
Bill Medley
Music
Great
Me
Together
Black
Our
Elvis
Our Music
Great Guy
Cart
See
About
Guy
Horse
He
Drove
Around
How
Go
Curious
Just
Movie
Fan
Golf
Golf Cart
Elvis came along when I was 10. My father gave me a bass ukulele. I taught myself how to play from a book to play some chords, so I was laying down 'Hound Dog' and things like that when I was 10 years old in 1955. That's the way I was. My ear was glued to the radio. I knew right then what I wanted to do.
Bob Seger
Myself
Me
Book
Dog
Old
Father
Down
Bass
Gave
Elvis
Way
Ukulele
Some
Laying
Knew
Along
Hound
Like
How
Glued
Came
Years
Taught
Wanted
Then
Radio
Chords
Play
Right
Things
Ear
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
Elvis might have compromised his musical style a bit towards the end, but that doesn't mean that artists from the rock n' roll/folk-roots culture - of which he was not really a part - shouldn't get better as they get older, like the great jazz or blues artists.
Bonnie Raitt
Great
Culture
Better
Style
Jazz
Older
Elvis
Musical
Bit
Compromised
He
Part
Towards
Like
Rock
His
End
Get
Artists
Blues
Which
Mean
Might
Really
U2 have a lot of religion, also people like Johnny Cash and Elvis. Those people weren't shy about it - it's nice there are people who've come before that were open about it.
Brandon Flowers
Religion
People
Before
Nice
Elvis
Those
About
Cash
Johnny
Johnny Cash
Open
Come
Like
Also
Were
Lot
Shy
I was nuts about Elvis, like every girl in America.
Brenda Lee
Girl
Every
Elvis
Nuts
About
Like
America
Elvis is not so difficult as Johnny Cash because his voice is so distinctive. If you try to copy Johnny Cash, it's just going to sound dumb.
Brian Setzer
You
Try
Difficult
Elvis
Distinctive
Cash
Johnny
Voice
Johnny Cash
Because
Sound
His
Dumb
Going
Just
Copy
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