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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
Elvis was incredibly cooperative. He would try anything. He wasn't a diva, no prima donna. When it came to work, he was a workhorse.
Jerry Leiber
Work
Try
Incredibly
Elvis
Would
Diva
He
Prima
Came
Anything
Cooperative
Elvis was the only man from Northeast Mississippi who could shake his hips and still be loved by rednecks, cops, and hippies.
Jimmy Buffett
Man
Elvis
Shake
Only
Could
Mississippi
Still
Hippies
Hips
His
Northeast
Loved
Who
Cops
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
'Lost' was a phenomenon, like Elvis.
John Cho
Lost
Elvis
Like
Phenomenon
When Elvis made his mass-media debut on 'The Ed Sullivan Show' - his notorious gyrations filmed only from the waist up - I fell off the family chaise longue with delight.
John Lahr
Family
Made
Sullivan
Elvis
Only
Delight
Fell
Ed Sullivan
Waist
His
Off
Up
Debut
Show
Notorious
Oh, I think country has changed tremendously. I think country has totally changed. Country music when I was a kid was Hank Williams. If you put Hank and Elvis together, there wasn't that musical difference. But as the Beatles showed up and the English invasion, I think country music got pretty far away from rock n' roll.
John Mellencamp
Music
You
Beatles
Together
Country
Think
Changed
Tremendously
Elvis
Musical
Kid
Williams
Pretty
Totally
Invasion
Put
Country Music
Rock
Got
Rock-N-Roll
Up
Roll
Oh
Hank
Difference
Hank Williams
Far
Far Away
English
Away
I had a year-round Christmas tree with nothing but colored vinyl 45s hanging on it, like, old Elvis records and stuff.
John Prine
Christmas
Old
Nothing
Christmas Tree
Tree
Elvis
Records
Colored
Had
Stuff
Like
Year-Round
Hanging
Vinyl
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
Guys like Otis Blackwell and Bobby Darin, and all the guys who were writing songs for Elvis at the time, just hanging around, writing songs, talking about music.
Johnny Rivers
Music
Time
Writing
Elvis
About
Guys
Songs
Like
Talking
Around
Were
Hanging
Just
Bobby
Who
You're never going to see the fat Elvis in me. People I admired like Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and John Belushi all died at 27. I've got jeans older than that.
Jon Bon Jovi
Me
You
People
Older
Elvis
Jimi Hendrix
John
Admired
See
Never
Like
Got
Than
Died
Going
Janis Joplin
Jeans
Hendrix
Fat
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
Elvis Presley's estate is making 30 million a year, and they say that Marley shouldn't be, but he is from a much poorer part of the world, and a lot more people need the money.
Kevin Macdonald
People
World
Money
Year
Elvis
Say
Marley
More
More People
He
Part
Making
Lot
Estate
Poorer
Much
They Say
Million
Need
My older brother had a lot of Elvis on vinyl, and really, that was my first introduction to music during the Fifties.
Kiki Dee
Music
First
Older
Elvis
Introduction
Brother
Had
Lot
Fifties
Really
Older Brother
Vinyl
Elvis inspired my sideburns, but Little Richard inspired me for vocals.
Lemmy
Me
Elvis
Vocals
Inspired
Little
Richard
Little Richard
Rock n' roll sounded like music from another planet. The first time around, we had people like Elvis, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis - all them people.
Lemmy
Music
Time
People
First
Chuck
Chuck Berry
Elvis
Berry
Had
Like
Another
Around
First Time
Rock
Rock-N-Roll
Lee
Roll
Little
Them
Richard
Planet
Little Richard
Jerry
Lewis
I had an opportunity to meet Elvis, only once. It was at the MGM Grand. It was certainly not at the height of his career. No, it wasn't at the height of his career, but it was still a thrill to see him and meet him anyway. You know?
Lesley Gore
You
Opportunity
Meet
Elvis
Once
See
Thrill
Only
Had
Know
Him
Still
His
Anyway
Grand
Height
Certainly
Career
I remember hearing people like Joe Cocker, Fleetwood Mac, and Elvis. My parents were big fans of them, and they were the early seeds. My brother was more into Slipknot, and I still listen to them, too, but it wasn't until I listened to Paolo Nutini that it really clicked.
Lewis Capaldi
People
Remember
Fans
Parents
Big
Too
Elvis
Mac
Joe
Brother
Seeds
More
Like
Until
Clicked
Still
Were
Hearing
Listen
Listened
Them
Really
Fleetwood
Fleetwood Mac
Early
You can take Elvis. You can take Marilyn Monroe. Success and fame will not be the answer if something inside of you is bothering you, if things in your mind aren't going right.
Linda Evans
Success
You
Mind
Will
Monroe
Elvis
Inside
Something
Bothering
Take
Answer
Fame
Going
Your
Right
Things
Marilyn
Marilyn Monroe
Why did I break up with Elvis? It was difficult to watch his slow demise.
Linda Thompson
Slow
Difficult
Elvis
Demise
His
Up
Did
Break
Break Up
Why
Watch
Bruce was famous, but not 'Elvis famous.' He was confident and lighthearted. Comfortable in his own skin. Or so it seemed.
Linda Thompson
Own
Skin
Elvis
Seemed
Bruce
He
Lighthearted
Comfortable
His
Confident
Famous
There has been speculation through the years that Elvis has his eyes done or some other mystery procedure, but that mini facelift was the extent of his plastic surgery.
Linda Thompson
Eyes
Other
Elvis
Mini
Has-Been
Some
Facelift
Mystery
Through
Surgery
Been
His
Years
Done
Procedure
Plastic
Plastic Surgery
Extent
Speculation
I wanted to come through with my own voice and, hopefully, have it affect people. I want people to know that I'm not an Elvis impersonator.
Lisa Marie Presley
People
Own
Elvis
Hopefully
My Own
Voice
Through
Impersonator
Come
Know
Affect
Want
Wanted
On my US tour maybe three out of 30 shows there was an Elvis impersonator in the crowd but that's it. I usually get younger fans, and those that come that are of an older generation end up walking out because it's too loud.
Lisa Marie Presley
Generation
Fans
Three
Older
Too
Elvis
Those
Out
Crowd
Tour
Impersonator
Come
Because
End
Up
Loud
Walking
Get
Maybe
Younger
Us
Shows
Older Generation
If it was just me and Elvis one on one, which only happened once or twice in the times that I did see him, it was a really comfortable. He was a cool guy. Easy laugh, nice guy.
Mac Davis
Me
Nice
Elvis
Once
Laugh
Easy
See
One-On-One
Guy
Only
He
Him
Comfortable
Times
Did
Just
Happened
Which
Really
Cool
Cool Guy
Nice Guy
Twice
I'm sure that Elvis was happy for me. I think he was the kind of guy that enjoyed other people's success, especially if he had something to do with it.
Mac Davis
Success
Me
Happy
People
Think
Other
Elvis
Kind
Something
Guy
Had
He
Sure
Enjoyed
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