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Professional stilt walker, dancer, and performer!
"We bring these shows to life!"
"Elvis was a giant and influenced
everyone in the business."
“A live concert to me
is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage. It’s my favorite part of the
business - live concerts.”
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“The first time that I appeared
on stage, it scared me to death. I really didn’t know what all the yelling was about. I didn’t realize that my
body was moving. It’s a natural thing to me. So to the manager backstage I said, ‘What’d I do? What’d
I do?’ And he said “Whatever it is, go back and do it again.”
“When I was a child, ladies
and gentlemen, I was a dreamer. I read comic books and I was the hero of the comic book. I saw movies and I was the hero in
the movie. So every dream I ever dreamed has come true a hundred times...I learned very early in life that: ‘Without
a song, the day would never end; without a song, a man ain’t got a friend; without a song, the road would never bend
- without a song.' So I keep singing a song. Goodnight. Thank you.”
“Elvis was never short of
any stage performance. There is still a lot to be learned there. It gives you an idea of how to work a stage. He drew people
in, you know, defiantly. He had that look; he looked like a star.”
"There is something magical
about watching a man who has lost himself find his way back home...He sang with the kind of power people no longer expect
from rock ‘n’ roll singers.”
“Before Elvis, there was
nothing.”
“So what it boils down to
was Elvis produced his own records. He came to the session, picked the songs, and if something in the arrangement was changed,
he was the one to change it. Everything was worked out spontaneously. Nothing was really rehearsed. Many of the important
decisions normally made previous to a recording session were made during the session. What it was was a look to the future.
Today everybody makes records this way. Back then Elvis was the only one. He was the forerunner of everything that’s
record production these days. Consciously or unconsciously, everyone imitated him. People started doing what Elvis did.”
“There are several unbelievable
things about Elvis, but the most incredible is his staying power in a world where meteoric careers fade like shooting stars.”
“...a style and panache that
come close to pure magic. Lithe, raunchy, the sweat pouring down his face, he now moves with the precision of an athlete,
the grace of a dancer...flamboyant and flashy, sexy and self-mocking, he works with the instincts of a genius to give poetry
to the basic rock performance."
"A lot has been written and
said about why he was so great, but I think the best way to appreciate his greatness is just to go back and play some of the
old records... Time has a way of being very unkind to old records, but Elvis' keeps getting better and better.”
“It’s rare when
an artist’s talent can touch an entire generation of people. It’s even rarer when that same influence affects
several generations. Elvis made an imprint on the world of pop music unequaled by any other single performer.”
"Elvis had an influence on
everybody with his musical approach. He broke the ice for all of us.”
"He was the firstest with
the mostest.”
"You have no idea how
great he is, really you don’t. You have no comprehension - it’s absolutely impossible. I can’t tell you
why he’s so great, but he is. He’s sensational.”
“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
revolution - the 60’s comes from it.”
“Elvis, is a symbol
of tremendous promise and that kind of American hopefulness, where you can come from nowhere and have nothing and build yourself
up and chase that American dream.”
“He embodied rock ‘n’
roll, he owened it 100 % - he was that.”
“I wanted to say to Elvis
Presley and the country that this is a real decent, fine boy.”
"He had total love in his
eyes when he performed. He was the total androgenous beauty."
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