Memphis Quotes

I'll stay in Memphis.
Elvis Presley

That was the big thing when I was growing up, singing on the radio. The extent of my dream was to sing on the radio station in Memphis. Even when I got out of the Air Force in 1954, I came right back to Memphis and started knocking on doors at the radio station.
Johnny Cash

Big, Dream, Started

When I got outta High School I was driving a truck. I was just a poor boy from Memphis, Memphis.
Elvis Presley

School, Poor, High

Man, that record came out and was real big in Memphis. They started playing it, and it got real big. Don't know why-the lyrics had no meaning.
Elvis Presley

Real, Big, Playing

My parents were working in a hospital in Memphis. But I didn't live there for any length of time that I remember. The first thing I remember is the town in Mississippi that I live in now, Charleston.
Morgan Freeman

Time, Live, Parents

A friend of mine took me to Memphis advised me that I should get in the musicians' union. He gave me a set of drums and said, Stay on the job, son.
Levon Helm

Job, Friend, Son

I sang in church growing up. Memphis is the blues capital of the world, we like to say.
Justin Timberlake

Growing, Church, Blues

The many sounds of Memphis shaped my early musical career and continue to be an inspiration to this day.
Justin Timberlake

Career, Early, Continue

Growing up in Memphis, I have always admired St. Jude's for the magnificent work they do.
Ginnifer Goodwin

Work, Growing, Admired

The Faces do not, as some have recently alleged, play badly. They are more than competent, especially at creating a mid-Sixties Rolling Stones-styled groove, as their excellent version of 'Memphis' proves.
Jon Landau

Play, Excellent, Creating

I used to be sick of the backroads of Minnesota. I had to drive 30 miles to get home every day, take the schoolbus for two hours. But to drive through America and see the backroads, from Nashville to Memphis, Lovick to New Mexico, was incredible. It was probably the greatest trip of my life.
Garrett Hedlund

Life, Home, Greatest

The beginning of the shows are different. One time we'll say 'Hello, Denver'. Another time we'll say 'Hello, Memphis'. It's always different.
Lance Bass

Time, Different, Another

When working abroad you work pretty hard, but with time off, this is the greatest job in the world. You drive. You explore Memphis, or wherever you've landed, or go and see Dr John, or the Californian landscape. And, yes, I've had a few good meals.
Toby Jones

Work, Time, Good

I got arrested once on stage in Memphis for looking too much like Liza Minnelli.
David Johansen

Once, Looking, Stage

Judging from what looks like the popularity of this classic wrestling show is that the people like what they have grown to know and love here in Memphis.
Jerry Lawler

Love, Judging, Here

I hitchhiked, took trucks 'n' trains - anything that would pick me up. I stopped in Memphis for about six months and they found me and come got me. Stayed about a month an' split again.
John Lee Hooker

Again, Found, Took

I'd been to Memphis before, but we stayed out of Memphis early on in the late 70s for obvious reasons. People were very sensitive about Elvis Presley, and my stage name obviously would be provocative to some people in that area at that time.
Elvis Costello

Time, Before, Name

She would go to Memphis and this was after our divorce. And I would send her to Memphis to be with him.
Priscilla Presley

Him, After, Divorce

I love Motown, but I've obviously always been more of a Memphis soul fan. If it's Stax or Motown, I go Stax.
Justin Townes Earle

Love, Soul, Fan

I accepted an offer to do a concert for the reopening of the Mall of Memphis.
Johnny Rivers

Accepted, Concert, Mall

The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if he dares to protect himself against the white man or become his rival.
Ida B. Wells

Character, Become, Against

I met the Colonel when Elvis was recording some song I'd written for one of his movies. Elvis was just having fun with the gang and all the Memphis boys and Colonel Parker was sitting over here in like a theater seat.
Mac Davis

Movies, Fun, Here

No, I always hated modeling. I developed an early hatred of modeling just from having to do it; having won Miss Teenage Memphis, I had to model, and I hated it. It bored me.
Cybill Shepherd

Bored, Hatred, Won

The support this city and our fans have shown the Grizzlies made my decision to stay in Memphis an easy one. Memphis deserves a championship team, and I am committed to that.
Jerry West

Decision, Made, Team

When I came out of the military, I had a club in Memphis and I started using the The Bar Kays as my club band. They were still only in the middle school - but I'd take them on the road with me on the weekends, sometimes.
William Bell

School, Sometimes, Road

Growing up in Memphis and listening to all kinds of music and dreaming... So that was one of the first times I wrote a complete song and set it to music and the whole bit. From then on, I was busy with it.
William Bell

Music, Busy, Whole

Memphis is in a very lucky position on the map. Everything just gravitated to Memphis for years.
Steve Cropper

Everything, Lucky, Position

Most studios in Memphis had a house set of drums; the drummers just brought their own sticks.
Steve Cropper

House, Drums, Drummers

I picked all the tunes before I went to Memphis, and the band was all set. Willie Mitchell is an arranger like I am, and he let me do what I had to do.
Otis Rush

Before, Band, Tunes

I used to go down every year for the remembrance of Elvis' birthday. Memphis State College invited me to sit in the auditorium and speak to the people for one of those Elvis days.
Otis Blackwell

Birthday, Down, Speak

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