Mac Davis Quotes

Without Elvis none of us could have made it.

Elvis was the king. No doubt about it. People like myself, Mick Jagger and all the others only followed in his footsteps.

Elvis was a sweet darling, shy fellow, but he was really boring.

One seldom expects the country's president to adequately note the passing of a rocker, but Jimmy Carter's assessment of Elvis Presley's appeal - 'energy, rebelliousness and good humor' - is remarkably close to the mark.

Elvis may have been my first hero, but you couldn't relate to him.

Elvis was a giant and influenced everyone in the business.

I was nuts about Elvis, like every girl in America.

I'm still a, you know, a silly girl... a big kid.

Elvis was the only man from Northeast Mississippi who could shake his hips and still be loved by rednecks, cops, and hippies.

I made up my mind that I was going to be just like Elvis. It never occurred to me that Elvis was a man. I just wanted to be him. He had a huge impact on me, right down to that black leather jumpsuit he wore on the '68 Comeback Special.

And I just remember, you know, breaking into tears and feeling so empty because, as long as Elvis was in the world, you always knew something was going and he always had something that kept everybody mesmerized.

Elvis is great and so is anybody who lasts like he does.

The Beatles in 1963 came to America and became international celebrities, but Bobby Fischer was one of the first, as Elvis was, more in terms of the message created around him.

I'll never grow up. I'll always be a child at heart.

Here's to Never Growing up

I’m still very much a kid inside myself.

I'm such a kid at heart.

I'm a big fan of Elvis, man. I got 'Heartbreak Hotel' tattooed on my chest.

Bowie is just a persona. He's a singer, an entertainer. David Jones is a man I met.

I think I've never stopped feeling like a kid.

My dream collaboration would be Elvis.

Elvis was a great singer. He really was.

Michael is a kid, sort of, like, I mean, Michael is a kid himself; he's never really grown up.

I'm a young boy at heart, I guess.

Elvis is symbolic of a lot of things, dreams coming true being one of them.