Memphis Quote by Elvis Presley

Memphis got a lot to do with rap, like, we got our own sound; don't nobody sound like us. So I don't know if…

— GloRilla

All the really great records or people who made them somehow came from Memphis or Louisiana or somewhere along the Mississippi River...And singers like…

— John Fogerty

... so much of what we do now started in 1954 at Sun Records in Memphis Tennessee ... those guys were inventing that stuff…

— Brian Setzer

I picked all the tunes before I went to Memphis, and the band was all set. Willie Mitchell is an arranger like I am,…

— Otis Rush

Most of our songs were just talking about what we had seen in the ghetto. We weren't thinking, 'Oh, this is going to be…

— DJ Yella

The lyrics came out of necessity. When we started writing the record, we started in a more fusion environment and that got boring really…

— Jimmy Chamberlin

Before 'Memphis,' I had never considered working on a musical. But when Joe DiPietro sent me the script, I heard the entire score in…

— David Bryan

I sang in church growing up. Memphis is the blues capital of the world, we like to say.

— Justin Timberlake

As far as Memphis being underrated, I feel like a lot of people have slept on Memphis music when it comes to breaking through…

— Tay Keith

That Mississippi sound, that Delta sound is in them old records. You can hear it all the way through.

— Muddy Waters

How I talk, it's just Memphis. I don't know no other way to explain it. It's just Memphis.

— GloRilla

A lot of rappers want somebody to always sing on their records. If you can hold a note, they're gonna' ask you to come…

— Nicki Minaj