Bruce Springsteen:
"It was like he came along and whispered some dream in everybody's ear, and somehow we all dreamed it."
Ed Sullivan:
"I wanted to say to Elvis Presley and the country that this is a real decent, fine boy, and wherever you go, Elvis, we want to say we've never had a pleasanter experience on our show with a big name than we've had with you." - Following Presley's final appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, January 1957
Gillian Welch ("Elvis Presley Blues," 2001):
Just a country boy that combed his hair/ And put on a shirt his mother made and went on the air/ And he shook it like a chorus girl/ And he shook it like a Harlem queen/ He shook it like a midnight rambler, baby/ Like you never seen"
Jackie Wilson:
"A lot of people have accused Elvis of stealing the black man's music, when in fact almost every black solo entertainer copied his stage mannerisms from Elvis."
Neil Young ("He Was the King," 2005)
"The last time I saw Elvis/ He was riding in a pink Cadillac/ Wind was blowing through his hair/ And he never did look back/ He was the King"
Sources: Elvis.com, Wikipedia ("Songs About Elvis"), various lyric databases
