Audience Quote by Lindsey Buckingham

The Beatles were huge. And the first thing they said when you interviewed them, 'Oh yeah, we grew up on Motown.'..They were the first…

— Smokey Robinson

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

— Link Wray

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 is the king of rock and roll, who made white kids shake their shackle.

— Gene Simmons

Instead of the Beatles and the Stones, my mum and dad were listening to Michael Jackson, Barry White.

— Jonas Blue

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

— Frank Sinatra

You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world. Ten years ago, it would have been impossible to…

— Alan Arkin

“Once upon a time, there was a generation of parents who were certain that Elvis Presley's unashamed hip-swivellingvwas most certainly the end of society.”

— Charlie Caruso

Elvis was a giant and influenced everyone in the business.

— Isaac Hayes

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

In my Philly neighborhood, black and white kids hung together without even thinking about it. The spirit of Martin Luther King was alive and…

— Daryl Hall

Elvis had an influence on everybody with his musical approach. He broke the ice for all of us.

— Al Green