I doubt very much if The Beatles would have happened if it was not for Elvis.
My dad sat me in front of the TV, and instead of putting on Nick Jr. or something, he put me in front of 'Jailhouse Rock' and all the Elvis movies.
I think everybody in my generation, we wanted to be Elvis.
And when Elvis was unhappy, believe me, everyone was unhappy.
Without Elvis none of us could have made it.
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.
Elvis was the king. No doubt about it. People like myself, Mick Jagger and all the others only followed in his footsteps.
It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard 'Heartbreak Hotel' I thought, this is it.
The first record I ever listened to was Elvis Presley, and I remember thinking, 'Man this guy is cool!' The swagger he had really helped my confidence, because he really made me think that a white boy could make music like this.
When I look out into your faces, you know what I see? I see a little bit of Elvis in each and every one of you out there.
Every performer who ever performed in rock and roll or even close to it is lying if they tell you that they weren't influenced in some way or another by Elvis Presley. He turned the world around.
I owe Elvis my career, and the entire music business owes him it's lifeline.
I'm an Elvis fan because it was Elvis who really got me out of Liverpool.
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.
I can always remember that experience in Hawaii pleasantly on account of Elvis.
My mom was always a big fan of Elvis. She made me listen to Elvis when I was a kid. I hated it. And I think now I've kind of grown up to fill in some of the sort of controversy that he created back in his day, but in a much more extreme, modern sense.
If you look back to a picture of me when I was 12 years old, you will probably see me in a leather jacket trying to look like Elvis!
Elvis was a major hero of mine. I was probably stupid enough to believe that having the same birthday as him actually meant something.
I was loud and electric at night, got all shook up with Elvis.
Before, I was terrified on stage. I only play guitar during the acoustic songs. After a while, you can elicit certain responses from the crowd, like Elvis.
Almost no one sings like Elvis Presley any more.
It's rare when an artist's talent can touch an entire generation of people. It's even rarer when that same influence affects several generations. Elvis made an imprint on the world of pop music unequaled by any other single performer.
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.
My mom bought me a guitar when I was 12 and I used to pretend that I was a rock star in my own room. I was also obsessed with Elvis as a kid.
Elvis saved my life when I was 13 or 14. He saved all our lives.
