

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.

Until we meet again, may God bless you as he has blessed me.

I think I have something tonight that's not quite correct for evening wear. Blue suede shoes.

The Lord can give, and the Lord can take away. I might be herding sheep next year.

I'm strictly for Stevenson. I don't dig the intellectual bit, but I'm telling you, man, he knows the most.

I did the Ed Sullivan show four times. I did the Steve Allen show. I did the Jackie Gleason show.

Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me. I can't help it.'

I'm not trying to be sexy. It's just my way of expressing myself when I move around.

I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.

It's human nature to gripe, but I'm going ahead and doing the best I can.

Too much TV hurts movies.

I've been getting some bad publicity -- but you got to expect that.

I learned how important it is to entertain people and give them a reason to come and watch you play.

Man, I really like Vegas.

I was training to be an electrician. I suppose I got wired the wrong way round somewhere along the line.

The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I'm doin' now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them.

Since the beginning, it was just the same. The only difference, the crowds are bigger now.

I hope I didn't bore you too much with my life story.

Those movies sure got me into a rut.

I knew by heart all the dialogue of James Dean's films; I could watch Rebel Without a Cause a hundred times over.

Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

I never expected to be anybody important.