Quotes

I've already outlived all those doctors that told me to stop smoking.

My brother [Ira] said [Elvis] is the only man he'd ever seen that could wear out his clothes from the inside with all his shaking. (from a 2007 AP interview)

My job was to listen to people...and if they said something that caught your ear, that would make a good title...I would write it down and I'd give it to Ira [his brother]...[A complete song would] come to [Ira] like, God, like he was reading it off of another piece of paper...He was nice enough to put my name on the songs also. (from a 2007 AP interview)

It didn't take a month until they dropped the name "Presley" and nearly the entire backdrop of the stage was "ELVIS". He got big quick, very quick, but he was a good kid. (from a 2007 AP interview, about Elvis Presley being the Louvin Brothers opening act in 1955)

I'm the biggest harmony lover in the world. If a song's worth singing, you ought to put harmony on it.