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I Get Tired Of Singing To The Guys I Beat Up In Motion Pictures.

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I Get Tired Of Singing To The Guys I Beat Up In Motion Pictures.

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Ma'am, I'm Not Tryin' To Be Sexy. Ah Didn't Have Any Clear Idea Of Trying To Sell Sex. It's Just My Way Of Expressin' How I Feel When I Move Around. It's All Leg Movement. I Don't Do Nothin' With My Body.

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Don't Tell Me Baby You Gotta Go, I Got The Hifi High And The Lights Down Low.

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Where Could I Go But To The Lord?

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Make Me Feel At Home, If You Really Care, Scratch My Back And Run Your Pretty Fingers Through My Hair.

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I'm Lonely Like Adam And You're Evil Like Eve.

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I'll Never Make It, It Will Never Happen, Because They're Never Going To Hear Me 'cause They're Screaming All The Time.

I Sure Lost My Musical Direction In Hollywood. My Songs Were The Same Conveyer Belt Mass Production, Just Like Most Of My Movies Were.

Whatever I Will Become Will Be What God Has Chosen For Me.

Somebody Does Somethin' Stupid, That's Human. They Don't Stop When They See It's Wrong, That's A Fool.

My Fans Want My Shirt. They Can Have My Shirt. They Put It On My Back.

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In Public, I Like Real Conservative Clothes, Something That's Not Too Flashy. But Onstage, I Like 'em As Flashy As You Can Get 'em.

Number 47 Said To Number 3, You're The Cutest Jailbird I Ever Did See.

My Movements, Ma'am, Are All Leg Movements. I Don't Do Nothing With My Body.

Her Little Sister Will Tell You She Don't Live Here Anymore.

It's All A Big Hoax, Honey. I Never Wrote A Song In My Life. I Get One-third Of The Credit For Recording It. It Makes Me Look Smarter Than I Am. I've Never Even Had An Idea For A Song. Just Once, Mybe.

The Next Thing I Knew, I Was Out Of The Service And Making Movies Again. My First Picture Was Called, Gi Blues. I Thought I Was Still In The Army.

The Man Who Can Sing When He Hasn't Got A Thing, He's The King Of The Whole Wide World.

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... 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.

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You Only Pass Through This Life Once, You Don't Come Back For An Encore.

Little Sister, Don't You Do What Your Big Sister Done.

Look Guys, If You're Just Going To Stare At Me, I'm Going To Bed!

I Like Pork Chops And Country Ham, Creamed Potatoes, Stuff Like That. Redeye Gravy. It Comes From Ham, Bacon, Stuff Like That. It's The Grease That You Fry It In. I Eat A Lot Of Jell-o. Fruit Jell-o.

Love Me Tender, Love Me True, All My Dreams Fulfill. For My Darling, I Love You, And I Always Will.

I Can't Sing Very Well But I'd Like To Try.

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.

Too Much Tv Hurts Movies.

Ambition Is A Dream With A V8 Engine. Ain't Nowhere Else In The World Where You Can Go From Driving A Truck To Cadillac Overnight

Computers May Out Think Us One Day, But As Long As People Got Feelings We'll Be Better Than They Are.

The Closest I Ever Came To Getting Married Was Just Before I Started Singing. In Fact, My First Record Saved My Neck.

Love Me Tender, Love Me Sweet, Never Let Me Go.

Just Because I Managed To Do A Little Something, I Don't Want Anyone Back Home To Think I Got The Big Head.

When I Started Singing, I Weighed 153 Pounds. I Weigh 184 Now. I Haven't Gotten Any Taller, But I'm Putting On A Little More Weight.

You've Got To Follow That Dream, Wherever That Dream May Lead.

The Road To Love Is Full Of Danger Signs.

I Don't Like To Be Called Elvis The Pelvis. It's One Of The Most Childish Expressions I've Ever Heard Coming From An Adult. But If They Wanna Call Me That, There's Nothin' I Can Do About It, So I Just Have To Accept It.

I Learned Very Early In Life That: 'without A Song, The Day Would Never End; Without A Friend, A Man Ain't Got A Friend; Without A Song, The Road Would Never Bend-without A Song.' So I Keep Singing A Song.

I Don't Like People Who Are In Politics For Themselves And Not For Others. You Want That, You Can Go Into Show Business.

I Don't Feel I'll Live A Long Life. That's Why I Have To Get What I Can From Every Day.

People Ask Me Where I Got My Singing Style. I Didn't Copy My Style From Anybody.

People Think You're Crazy If You Talk About Things They Don't Understand.

We Can't Build Our Dreams On Suspicious Minds.

Didja Ever Get One Of Them Girls Who Just Wants To Watch The Show?

I'm Evil, My Middle Name Is Misery. Well, I'm Evil, So Don't Mess Around With Me.

When I Was A Boy, I Always Saw Myself As A Hero In Comic Books And In Movies. I Grew Up Believing This Dream.

Before You Abuse, Criticize, And Accuse Walk A Mile In My Shoes.

Viva Las Vegas With Your Neon Flashin' And Your One Arm Bandits Crashin' All Those Hopes Down The Drain. Viva Las Vegas Turnin' Day Into Nighttime, Turnin Night Into Daytime. If You See It Once, You'll Never Be The Same Again.

Tomorrow Will Be Too Late, It's Now Or Never.

I'd Just Like To Be Treated Like A Regular Customer.

I Go For All The Belles, Except The Wedding Kind.

Whatever It Is, Go Back And Do It Again.

The Only Kind Of Trouble I've Ever Been In Is When I Was Stealing Eggs When I Was Little. I Think I Know Right From Wrong.

Don't Leave My Embrace For Here In My Arms Is Your Place.

I Believe In The Bible. I Believe That All Good Things Come From God. I Don't Believe I'd Sing The Way I Do If God Hadn't Wanted Me To.'

The Only Thing Worse Than Watching A Bad Movie Is Being In One.

I Don't Think I'm Bad For People. If I Did Think I Was Bad For People, I Would Go Back To Driving A Truck, And I Really Mean This.

My Philosophy Of Life Is Simple: I Need Someone To Love, Something To Wait And Do Something.

I Happened To Come Along In The Music Business When There Was No Trend.

From The Time I Was A Kid, I Always Knew Something Was Going To Happen To Me. Didn't Know Exactly What.

What's The Good Of Reaching 90, If You Waste 89?

I'm Not Trying To Be Sexy. It's Just My Way Of Expressing Myself When I Move Around.

I've Never Written A Song In My Life. It's All A Big Hoax.

You Don't Like Hot Rod Racing Or Driving Late At Night, You Just Want To Park Where It's Nice And Dark.

Some Guys Fall In Love With One Girl, I Gotta Fall For Two.

Falling In Love

I Don't Do Any Vulgar Movements.

Every Time I Think That I'm Getting Old, And Gradually Going To The Grave, Something Else Happens.

Money Honey, If You Want To Get Along With Me.

When You Get Down To The Nitty Gritty, Isn't It A Pity That In This Big City Not One Little Bitty Man Will Admit That He Could Have Been A Little Wrong.

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."

Live Each Day, As If It We're Your Last. It's Written In The Stars, Your Destiny Is Cast.

I Did The Ed Sullivan Show Four Times. I Did The Steve Allen Show. I Did The Jackie Gleason Show.

I Get Tired Of Playing A Guy Who Gets Into A Fight, Then Starts Singing To The Guy He's Just Beat Up.

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