“Before Elvis, there was nothing.”
John Lennon
“...It was like he came along and whispered some dream in everybody’s ear, and somehow we all
dreamed it.”
Bruce Springsteen
"No-one, but no-one, is his equal, or ever will be. He was, and is supreme."
-- Mick
Jagger
“...A style and panache that come close to pure magic. Lithe, raunchy, the sweat pouring down his
face, he now moves with the precision of an athlete, the grace of a dancer...flamboyant and flashy, sexy and self-mocking, he works
with the instincts of a genius to give poetry to the basic rock performance.”
W.A. Harbinson
"The first concert I attended was an Elvis concert when I was eleven. Even at that age he made me
realize the tremendous effect a performer could have on an audience."
Cher
“I wanted to say to Elvis Presley and the country that this is a real decent, fine boy.”
Ed Sullivan
"If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead."
- Johnny
Carson
" I now try to make the best of everything because Elvis did! That's what I remember most. That,
and he always had a beautiful smile. Oh, and he had one of the most hearty, healthy laughs of any human being I've ever
known."
Gordon Stoker, member of the Jordanaires, who sang backup for Elvis in the 1950's & ‘60's
“There is something magical about watching a man who has lost himself find his way back
home...He sang with the kind of power people no longer expect from rock ‘n’ roll singers.”
John Landau
Review of Elvis, (1968 TV Special).