Brief Bio:
He was born Elvis Aaron Presley on January 8, 1935 in Tupelo, Mississippi. Presley died on August 16, 1977 at Graceland in Memphis, Tennessee.

Following is the calendar of events for The Elvis Presley Birthday Celebration 2008

1. "Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity."

2. "Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine."

3. "Don't criticize what you don't understand, son. You never walked in that man's shoes."

4. "Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens."

5. "Gospel music is the purest thing there is on this earth."

6. "Hollywood had lost sight of the basics. They're a lot of fancy talkers who like to pigeonhole you."

7. "I ain't no saint, but I've tried never to do anything that would hurt my family or offend God... I figure all any kid needs is hope and the feeling he or she belongs. If I could do or say anything that would give some kid that feeling, I would believe I had contributed something to the world.'"

8. "I'm so lucky to be in the position to give. It's really a gift to give."

9. "I believe in the Bible. I believe that all good things come from God. I don't believe I'd sing the way I do if God hadn't wanted me to."

10. "I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to."

11. "I don't want to read about some of these actresses who are around today. They sound like my niece in Scarsdale. I love my niece in Scarsdale, but I won't buy tickets to see her act."

12. "I enjoy reading. I don't usually read the type of books other people read. I read a lot of pholosophy and some poetry. I just read a book, "Leaves of Gold. It's by different people and their different philosophies on life and death. That type of stuff interest me, getting these different people's opinions."

13. "I enjoy rugged sports. I'm not knocking people who like golf and tennis and other things. But I like rugged sports such as boxing, football, karate and things like that. I have a great ambition to play football. I've always had and I still have, believe it or not.The thing I keep up with most is professional football. I know all the players, I kow all their numbers, who they play for. I watch all the games that I can. I get the films from the teams themselves if I can. Next to the entertainment thing and music, football is the thing I enjoy best."

14. "I have no use for bodyguards, but I have a very special use for two highly trained certified public accountants."

15. "I knew by heart all the dialogue of James Dean's films; I could watch "Rebel Without a Cause" a hundred times over."

16. "I never felt poor. There was always shoes to wear and food to eat - yet I knew there were things my parents did without just to make sure I was clothed and fed."

17. "I never believed that anything was a coincidence. There's a reason for everything that happens dreams tells us that we've got to be smart enough to interpret."

18. "It's not how much you have that people look up to you it's who you are."

19. "I went to Hollywood. My next move was to Hollywood. that's how it work's. You get a record and then you get on television and then take you to Hollywood to make a picture. So I did Love Me Tender, then I did Loving You. I wasn't ready for that town and they weren't ready for me."

20. "Just because you look good don't mean you feel good."

21. "Money's meant to be spread around. The more happiness it helps to create, the more it's worth. It's worthless as an old cut-up paper if it just lays in a bank and grows there without ever having been used to help a body."

22. "Music should be something that makes you gotta move, inside or outside."

23. "My mother, she never really wanted anything. She stayed the same through it all. There are a lot of things that's happened since she passed away. I wish she could have been around to see them. It would have made her very happy and proud, but that's life, and I can't help it."

24. "I don't know why she had to go so young. But it made me think abouth death. I don't feel I'll live a long life. That's why I have to get what I can from every day."

25. "My voice is God's will, not mine."

26. "Only the only thing worse than watching a bad movie is being in one."

27. "Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me. I can't help it.'"

28. "Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over."

29. "Some people tap their feet, some people snap their fingers, and some people sway back and forth. I just sorta do 'em all together, I guess.'"

30. "Talent is being able to sell what you're feeling."

31. "The image is one thing and the human being is another. It's very hard to live up to an image."

32. "The most beautiful thing in the world to me is a baby lookin' as pretty as her mama."

33. "The world is more alive at night it's like God ain't looking I don't believe that death is the end."

34. "Then I can sit on my back porch at Graceland and remember the good ol' days."

35. "Then I made some movies, you know G.I. Blues and Blue Hawaii and several pictures that did very well for me. But as the years went by, I really missed the people, the audience contact. I was really gettin' bugged. I was doing so many movies and couldn't really do what I could do. They'd say, 'Action!' and I'd go, 'Whop, whop, ump...'"

36. "Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away."

37. "We were an affectionate family. My mother was the most wonderful person in the world. I always felt a little bit lonely, maybe a better word would be 'incomplete', when I waslittle. But I could tell my mother about it, how I felt and then the feeling would go away. I suppose it might have been different if my brother had lived... But he didn't live, and I grew up alone. I guess my mother - and my father, too, of course - were trying to make up for that by giving me enough love for both."

38. "You only pass through this life once, you don't come back for an encore."

    Elvis died on August 16, 1977 at the age of 42.

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