Mac Davis Quotes & Sayings

“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 in some way or another by Elvis Presley. He turned the world around.”

“I was out on the golf course, a guy came riding out in a golf cart and said, Did you know that Elvis died? And I just said, Well, there you go. It was like I had kinda been expecting it.”

“There was a chance for me to write one song for the section where Elvis sat in his black leather outfit and sang the old hits. At eight oclock the next morning I had written Memories.”

“It's pretty amazing to me that my first hit record was an Elvis Presley record.”

“If it was just me and Elvis one on one, which only happened once or twice in the times that I did see him, it was a really comfortable. He was a cool guy. Easy laugh, nice guy.”

“One of my real goals was to hear someone whistling a song I'd written.”

“I had always wanted to write a song called, The Vicious Circle. I always thought it was like, the kids are born there, they grow up there, they die there.”

“I had Elvis' number in my book and I never called it.”

“Elvis was just like a big old kid. It was like he never got past 19, I don't think, in a lotta ways.”

“I still have an old painting the Colonel gave me. It was the first time the Colonel had been back to the Hilton since Elvis had passed away.”