American Quote by Jimmy Iovine

Elvis was a giant and influenced everyone in the business.

— Isaac Hayes

We have to focus on his early work, and just one or two of his movies, and elements of his TV shows, to keep…

— Pete Townshend

Elvis Presley is the main founding father of rock music. He was an unheralded genius behind a new music that changed western civilization for…

— Peter Noone

[Elvis] Presley was definitely a great inspiration to every guy who ever had a hard-on in the whole of the Western world, I should…

— Robert Plant

ELVIS PRESLEY was bigger than life. His success was documented and laid out for him. He came to the first show I had in…

— Roy Orbison

Elvis Presley was rock 'n' roll, I thought that was pretty mediocre. But since that time, the succeeding steps in music has been down,…

— Frank Sinatra Jr

Elvis Presley's talent brightened millions of lives. He widened the horizons of my world certainly. The first record I ever owned was a 78…

— Stephen King

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…

— Leonard Bernstein

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

— Rod Stewart

Elvis was rock'n'roll. He came from the poverty and the pain.

— Link Wray

Every performer who ever performed in rock and roll or even close to it is lying if they tell you that they weren't influenced…

— Mac Davis

I'm just a singer, Elvis was the embodiment of the whole American culture.

— Frank Sinatra