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"Elvis Presley is the greatest cultural force in the 20th century."

(Leonard Bernstein)

"If you're an Elvis fan, no explanation is necessary; If you're not an Elvis fan, no explanation is possible."

(George Klein)

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"For a dead man, Elvis Presley is awfully noisy."

(Professor Gilbert B. Rodman)

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"History has him as this good old country boy, Elvis is about as country as Bono!"

(Jerry Schilling)

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"Absolute id crashed into absolute superego...as the uptightset man in America shook hands with just about the loosest."

(Mark Feeney on the 'Elvis meets Nixon' meeting)

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"Elvis is everywhere"

(Mojo Nixon & Skid Roper)

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"...especially in the South, they talk about Elvis and Jesus in the same breath"

(Michael Ventura, LA Weekly)

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"The image is one thing and the human being is another...it's very hard to live up to an image"

(Elvis Presley, Madison Square Garden press conference, 1972)

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"Elvis was a major hero of mine. I was actually stupid enough to believe that having the same birthday as him actually meant something"

(David Bowie)

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"No-one, but no-one, is his equal, or ever will be. He was, and is supreme"

(Mick Jagger)

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"I wasn't just a fan, I was his brother...there'll never be another like that soul brother"

(Soul legend, James Brown)

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"Before Elvis there was nothing!"

(John Lennon)

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"There were rock 'n' roll records before Heartbreak Hotel, but this was the one that didn't just open the door…it literally blasted the door off its rusted, rotten, anachronistic hinges…. producing....no propelling, an unstoppable, fundamental and primordial shift in not only musical, but social, political and cultural history"

(JNP, BBC website)

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"Elvis, the musician, is largely a relic belonging to the baby boomer generation...Elvis, the icon, is arguably one of the most potent symbols of popular culture"

( Dr. John Walker)

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"It [rock & roll] was always about Elvis; not just because he was Elvis, but because he was the big star"

(Bono from U2)

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"If they had let me on white radio stations back then, there never would have been an Elvis"

(Little Richard)

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"Elvis loved opera, and he especially liked Mario Lanza. He would watch The Student Prince which was set in Heidelberg, over and over again. He loved the power of the big voices. And he loved big orchestras. He liked real dramatic things"

(Marty Lacker in 'Elvis and the Memphis Mafia')

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"If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead"

(Johnny Carson)