* Elvis is the greatest cultural force in the twentieth century. He introduced the beat to everything, music, language, clothes, it's a whole new social revolution — the 60's comes from it.
o Leonard Bernstein

* No one will ever touch Elvis.
o Garth Brooks

* I'm sitting in the drive-through and I've got my three girls in the back and this station comes on and it's playing "Jailhouse Rock," the original version, and my girls are jumping up and down, going nuts. I'm looking around at them and they've heard Dad's music all the time and I don't see that out of them.
o Garth Brooks

* I think he maybe just got a little tired of repairing all the broken hearts in the world.
o Tom Waits

* Elvis was the only man from Northeast Mississippi who could shake his hips and still be loved by rednecks, cops, and hippies.
o Jimmy Buffett

* I wasn't just a fan, I was his brother. He said I was good and I said he was good; we never argued about that. Elvis was a hard worker, dedicated, and God loved him. Last time I saw him was at Graceland. We sang Old Blind Barnabus together, a gospel song. I love him and hope to see him in heaven. There'll never be another like that soul brother.
o James Brown

* If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.
o Johnny Carson

* Elvis Presley's death deprives our country of a part of itself. He was unique, irreplaceable. More than twenty years ago, he burst upon the scene with an impact that was unprecedented and will probably never be equaled. His music and his personality, fusing the styles of white country and black rhythm and blues, permanently changed the face of American popular culture. His following was immense. And he was a symbol to people the world over of the vitality, rebelliousness and good humor of this country.
o Jimmy Carter, 1977

* 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.
o Cher

* It's rare when an artist's talent can touch an entire generation of people. It's even rarer when that same influence affects several generations. Elvis made an imprint on the world of pop music unequaled by any other single performer.
o Dick Clark

* He helped to kill off the influence of me and my contemporaries, but I respect him for that. Because music always has to progress, and no-one could have opened the door to the future like he did.
o Bing Crosby

* This boy had everything. He had the looks, the moves, the manager, and the talent. And he didn't look like Mr. Ed like a lot of the rest of us did. In the way he looked, way he talked, way he acted — he really was different.
o Carl Perkins

* Before Elvis, everything was in black and white. Then came Elvis. Zoom, glorious Technicolor.
o Keith Richards

* If there was no Elvis Presley, they're would have been no Cliff Richard. I'm sure of that.
o Cliff Richard

* I don't think there is a musician today that hasn't been affected by Elvis' music. His definitive years — 1954-57 — can only be described as rock's cornerstone. He was the original cool.
o Brian Setzer

* There have been many accolades uttered about Elvis' talent and performances through the years, all of which I agree with wholeheartedly. I shall miss him dearly as a friend. He was a warm, considerate and generous man.
o Frank Sinatra (1977) this long after an initial hostility to his style in the 50s, before knowing him.

* The Postal Service is being wasteful in spending nearly $300,000 to promote its Elvis Presley stamp. To break even, they would have to sell more than one million stamps to collectors who do not then use them.
o Ralph Nader, a few months before the US Postal Service announced it had made a record breaking US$31 million on the strength of some 120 million unused Elvis stamps, out of the 500 million which were sold, the most for any commemorative stamp in US postal history.

* That Elvis, man, he is all there is. There ain't no more. Everything starts and ends with him. He wrote the book.
o Bruce Springsteen

* There have been a lotta tough guys. There have been pretenders. And there have been contenders. But there is only one king.
o Bruce Springsteen

* It was like he came along and whispered some dream in everybody's ear, and somehow we all dreamed it.
o Bruce Springsteen

* Elvis was the king. No doubt about it. People like myself, Mick Jagger and all the others only followed in his footsteps.
o Rod Stewart

* I wanted to say to Elvis Presley and the country that this is a real decent, fine boy.
o Ed Sullivan, during Elvis' third appearance on his show (6 January 1957)

* A lot of people have accused Elvis of stealing the black man's music, when in fact, almost every black solo entertainer copied his stage mannerisms from Elvis.
o Jackie Wilson R&B singer