Memphis Quotes
85 quotes by 77 authors
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Walking in Memphis, I was walking with my feet ten feet off of Beale. Walking in Memphis, but do I really feel the way I…
— Marc Cohn
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Mississippi begins in a lobby of a Memphis, Tennessee hotel and extends south to the Gulf of Mexico
— William Faulkner
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Most studios in Memphis had a house set of drums; the drummers just brought their own sticks.
— Steve Cropper
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Memphis is in a very lucky position on the map. Everything just gravitated to Memphis for years.
— Steve Cropper
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Memphis are a big part of who I am, but it's still just a part
— Matty Mullins
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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
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Anytime I was in Memphis with my dad and at the house, I was happy. That was, like, a given. It was what I lived…
— Lisa Marie Presley
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Sergio Trujillos choreography adds coals to the inferno, with movement that plain just doesnt stop. We know from Jersey Boys that he can capture this…
— Richard Ouzounian
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I used to listen to the radio, and when I was about 18 years old, B.B. King was a disc jockey and he had a…
— Koko Taylor
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I spent a few years here in Memphis, in the late '70s and early '80s, where I was studying a lot of country blues players…
— Alex Chilton
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Because I was single, there was a chance I was a homosexual. Because I went to Syracuse, wherever that was, then I was probably a…
— John Grisham
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I grew up Southern Baptist, so my experience was fairly conservative. Not archly so, but I think Memphis - when you get to certain parts…
— Chris Parnell
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I'll stay in Memphis.
— Elvis Presley
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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.…
— William Bell
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Big train from Memphis, now it's gone gone gone, gone gone gone. Like no one before, he let out a roar, and I just had…
— John Fogerty
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God bless the boys from Memphis, blue suede shoes, and Elvis.
— George Jones
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I try to think about Elvis, Memphis, Oprah in the afternoon.
— Patty Loveless
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I've got a reason to believe we all be received in Graceland, Graceland, Memphis Tennessee.
— Paul Simon
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The man on the radio says Elvis Presley's died. We drove to Memphis, the sky was hard and black.
— Bruce Springsteen
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I get called 'Memphis Eve,' but my first name is Eve. I know Memphis is in there somewhere, but on my passport I'm 'Eve Sunny…
— Eve Hewson
Who Wrote These Memphis Quotes
77 authors contributed a total of 85 Memphis Quotes, led by these top contributors: