- ''If there hadn't been Elvis, there would not have been the Beatles''
- ''Before Elvis there was nothing''
- ''Nothing really affected me until Elvis''
- ''We just idolized the guy so much....He was a legend in his own lifetime ....Tanks for ze music, Elvis - and long live ze King!''
- ''My crushing ambition in life was to be as big as Elvis Presley''
- ''Every time I felt low, I just put on an Elvis record and I'd feel great, beautiful''
Jim Morrison:
- ''Elvis was the best. The most unique. He started the ball rolling. He deserves the recognition''
Buddy Holly:
- ''Without Elvis, none of us could have made it'
Eddie Murphy:
- ''Elvis was the greatest entertainer of all time''
Bruce Springsteen:
- ''There have been contenders but there is only one King''
- ''He's as big....as the whole dream....Nothing will ever take the place of that guy''
James Brown:
- ''He taught white America how to get down''
Eric Clapton:
- ''Discount the commercial rubbish he had done often during his career. I just like to think of his traiblazing glorious best, when he sang black in white style and taught the world something about true originality''.
David Bowie:
- ''I saw a cousin of mine when I was young. She was dancing to ''Hound Dog'' and I had never seen her get up and be moved so much by anything. It really impressed me, the power of the music. I started getting records immediately after that.
Rod Stewart:
- ''People like myself, Mick Jagger and all the others only really followed in his footsteps''.
Scotty Moore:
- ''He had so much energy we had to sit up nights to wear him out so we could sleep''.
- ''Elvis was the first and the best of the rock 'n' roll era. He's my favourite''