MINNIE PEARL

Elvis couldn't leave the hotel except under heavy guard. It was incredible how they went wild over him.

Kissing a man with a beard is a lot like going to a picnic. You don't mind going through a little bush to get there!

Colonel Parker asked Henry and me to come to Elvis' suite and have breakfast. There were at least five policemen stationed up there. He was talking on the telephone.

They were taking pictures and everything. When we got down off the plane, the minute Elvis made his appearance at the door of the plane, the screaming got even worse.

I can always remember that experience in Hawaii pleasantly on account of Elvis.

We have boys now, and men, in the rock and roll business and all the show business, who have this reaction on women. They scream. They yell. They do all sorts of wild things.

I think Elvis would be alive today, probably, if he had been allowed to mix and mingle with his fans. I think it was a great cross for him to bear that he couldn't get out and be with his fans.

I think Elvis loved his fans - I think that's why they loved him and still love him. Fans are very conscious and sensitive to the fact that performers love them.

Elvis walked over and signed a few autographs over the fence. They were screaming. I had never seen this.

I've been with certain stars; some are caring and pay attention to their fans and to their fellow performers and some are too busy. Elvis never seemed too busy.

When we got to the hotel, the Hawaiian Village, there were 500 screaming women there. The police were trying to keep the crowd back. It was very dangerous.

The doctor must have put my pacemaker in wrong. Every time my husband kisses me, the garage door goes up.

Show business is made up of disappointments, and it's through life's disappointments that you grow.

Elvis said, Miss Minnie, do you think it would be out of order if I go up and speak to General Stewart? I've always been such a fan of his. So Elvis went up to speak to the Stewarts.

My husband was a pilot. He flew Elvis when Elvis first started making appearances around the country.

God has a plan for all of us, but He expects us to do our share of the work.

Take the back roads instead of the highways.

It's the most unglamourous glamour business in the world.

I knew about Elvis. Of course, everybody knew about him then.

That's what life is all about: remembering someone and smiling!

Since religion was so much a part of my life as a child, and since my childhood was so happy and so full of laughter and joy, I associate the two. Even my concept of Jesus goes along with this association of happiness and religion.

Getting married is a lot like getting into a tub of hot water. After you get used to it, it ain't so hot.

Once you've gotten used to performing, you can't give it up.

Marriage is like a hot bath; once you get used to it, it ain't so hot.

Roy Acuff was the first country music star to buy a home in a fashionable section of Nashville. The real estate man said, 'Mr. Acuff, how do you plan to take care of this?' since the house was very expensive at the time. Roy said, 'Would cash be all right?'