Frases de Elvis Presley

Elvis Aaron Presley[nota 1]​ fue uno de los cantantes estadounidenses más populares del siglo XX considerado como un ícono cultural y conocido ampliamente bajo su nombre de pila, Elvis. Se hace referencia a él frecuentemente como «El Rey del Rock and Roll» o simplemente «El Rey».

Nació en Tupelo, Misisipi, pero cuando tenía 13 años, se mudó junto a su familia a Memphis, Tennessee, donde en 1954 comenzó su carrera artística cuando el dueño de Sun Records, Sam Phillips, vio en él la manera de expandir la música afroamericana. Acompañado por el guitarrista Scotty Moore y el contrabajista Bill Black, fue uno de los creadores del rockabilly, un estilo de tempo rápido impulsado por un constante ritmo que consiste en una fusión de música country y rhythm and blues. Tras llegar a un acuerdo con el que fue su apoderado durante casi dos décadas, el coronel Tom Parker, la compañía discográfica RCA Records consiguió un contrato para difundir su música. El primer sencillo con esta empresa, «Heartbreak Hotel», lanzado en enero de 1956, se convirtió en un éxito número uno. Pronto, tras sus apariciones en los medios, se convirtió en la figura principal del popular sonido del rock and roll, con una serie de presentaciones televisivas y éxitos que llegaron a la cima de las listas de ventas. Sus interpretaciones llenas de energía, sobre todo de canciones afroamericanas y su estilo desinhibido lo hicieron enormemente popular y controvertido. Meses después, en noviembre de ese mismo año, llevó a cabo su debut cinematográfico con la película Love Me Tender.

Reclutado para el servicio militar en 1958, reanudó su carrera artística dos años más tarde, llegando parte de su material a alcanzar mayor éxito comercial desde entonces. Dio pocos conciertos, sin embargo, en la década de los 60, guiado por Parker, procedió a dedicarse a filmar películas para Hollywood y bandas sonoras, muchas de ellas ridiculizadas por la crítica. En 1968, tras siete años alejado de los escenarios, volvió a realizar presentaciones en directo en un especial de televisión que dio lugar a una amplia serie de conciertos en Las Vegas y también a varias giras musicales.

En 1973, protagonizó el primer concierto teletransmitido, de ámbito mundial vía satélite,[5]​[6]​[7]​[8]​ Aloha from Hawaii, visto aproximadamente por 1500 millones de personas. Finalmente, el consumo excesivo de medicamentos prescritos comprometió gravemente su salud, hasta que en 1977 murió súbitamente a la edad de 42 años.

Presley es considerado como una de las figuras más importantes de la cultura popular del siglo XX. Tenía una voz versátil y un inusual éxito en muchos géneros, entre ellos el country, el pop, las baladas, el gospel y el blues. Asimismo, se trata del solista con más ventas en la historia de la música popular.[9]​[10]​[11]​[12]​ Nominado a 14 premios Grammy, ganó tres y recibió uno en la categoría a la carrera artística a la edad de 36 años, además de figurar en diversos salones de la fama musicales. Wikipedia  

✵ 8. enero 1935 – 16. agosto 1977
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Frases célebres de Elvis Presley

“La imagen es una cosa y el ser humano otra… Es muy difícil vivir como una imagen.”

Fuente: Conferencia de prensa, junio de 1972.

“La primera vez que subí a un escenario estaba asustadísimo. No sabía a qué se debía el griterío, no me daba cuenta de que era por mis movimientos.”

Fuente: Citas de Elvis Presley http://pensionelcanduerco.blogspot.com/2008/07/citas-de-elvis-presley.html.

Elvis Presley: Frases en inglés

“The first time that I appeared on stage, it scared me to death. I really didn't know what all the yelling was about.”

Interview (March/April 1972), as quoted in The Leading Men of MGM (2006) by Jane Ellen Wayne, p. 406
Contexto: The first time that I appeared on stage, it scared me to death. I really didn't know what all the yelling was about. I didn't realize that my body was moving. It's a natural thing to me. So to the manager backstage I said, "What'd I do? What'd I do?" And he said, "Whatever it is, go back and do it again."

“Animals don't hate, and we're supposed to be smarter than them.”

Variante: Animals don't hate, and we're supposed to be better than them.

“Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine”

Variante: Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

“I'm never going to sing another song I don't believe in. I'm never going to make another picture I don't believe in.”

After hearing Walter Earl Brown's If I Can Dream, the song inspired on Martin Luther King Jr. that would close Elvis' comeback show in 1968, and the phrase was remarked to its producer, Steve Binder. http://elvis-tkc.com/forum2/lofiversion/index.php/t15948.html

“When I was a child, ladies and gentlemen, I was a dreamer. I read comic books, and I was the hero of the comic book. I saw movies, and I was the hero in the movie. So every dream I ever dreamed, has come true a hundred times…”

Acceptance speech for the 1970 Ten Outstanding Young Men of the Nation Award (16 January 1971), published in Elvis — Word for Word: What He Said, Exactly As He Said It (1999) by Jerry Osborne, p. 188
Contexto: I'd like to thank the Jaycees for electing me as one of their outstanding young men. When I was a child, ladies and gentlemen, I was a dreamer. I read comic books, and I was the hero of the comic book. I saw movies, and I was the hero in the movie. So every dream I ever dreamed, has come true a hundred times... And these gentlemen over here, these are the type of people who care, they're dedicated, and they realize that it is possible that they might be building the kingdom of heaven, it's not just too far fetched, from reality. I'd like to say that I learned very early in life that "Without a song, the day would never end; without a song, a man ain't got a friend; without a song, the road would never bend — without a song." So I keep singing a song. Goodnight. Thank you.

“When things go bad, don't go with them.”

Variante: When things go wrong, don't go with them.
Fuente: Elvis: Ultimate Gospel

“The way she held your hand,
The little things you planned.
Her memory is with you yet,
That's someone you'll never forget.”

That's Someone You Never Forget, from Pot Luck, written by Elvis Presley and Red West (1961)
Song lyrics

“Fingerprints are like values--you leave them all over everything you do”

Variante: Values are like fingerprints. Nobody's are the same, but you leave 'em all over everything you do

“Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't going away.”

Another handwriten message on Elvis' King James -Bible http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2188891/Elvis-bible-containing-handwritten-notes-star-expected-fetch-thousands-auction.html
Variante: Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't going away.

“Love me tender, love me sweet,
Never let me go.”

"Love Me Tender" (1956), the lyrics of this song are credited to Presley and co-writer Vera Matson, but were primarily written by Matson's husband, Ken Darby, who when asked why he credited his wife as co-writer with Presley replied "Because she didn't write it either."
Disputed

“It just happened. I like to sing, and well, I just started singing and folks just started listening.”

Pop Chronicles, Show 7 - The All American Boy: Enter Elvis and the rock-a-billies. Part 1 http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc19754/m1/; C. Robert Jennings, " Elvis Lives! http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/doc/155809300.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Feb+18%2C+1968&author=Jennings%2C+C+Robert&pub=Los+Angeles+Times+%281923-Current+File%29&edition=&startpage=M28&desc=ELVIS+LIVES%21", 1968-Feb-18, L.A. Times Magazine, p. M28.
Contexto: It just happened. I like to sing, and well, I just started singing and folks just started listening. I can't tell folks that I worked and learned and studied, and overcame disappointments, because I didn't.

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

Press conference (June 1972),also quoted in Elvis Culture : Fans, Faith, & Image (1999) by Erika Lee Doss, p. 218

“… I just know that, right now, … the biggest record selling business there is is rock and roll.”

Pop Chronicles: Show 55 - Crammer: A lively cram course on the history of rock and some other things http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc19838/m1/, interview recorded 1956 http://web.archive.org/web/20110615153027/http://www.library.unt.edu/music/special-collections/john-gilliland/o-s.

“I like Brando's acting … and James Dean … and Richard Widmark. Quite a few of 'em I like.”

When asked to name his favorite male actors, in "Elvis Exclusive Interview" with Ray Green in Little Rock, Arkansas (16 May 1956), as published in Elvis — Word for Word : What He Said, Exactly As He Said It (1999)

“A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage. It's my favorite part of the business — live concerts.”

Press conference (5 September 1972), also quoted in Paranoia & Power : Fear & Fame of Entertainment Icons (2007) by Gene N Landrum, p. 60

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