Elvis Presley on Pop Chronicles
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“... I just know that, right now, … the biggest record selling business there is is rock and roll.”
Elvis Presley, humbly downplaying his rise to fame in a 1968 *L.A. Times Magazine* interview, attributed his success to simply singing and people listening.
“It just happened. I like to sing, and well, I just started singing and folks just started listening. I can't tell folks that I worked and learned and studied, and overcame disappointments, because I didn't.”
“Rock and roll is a music, and why should a music contribute to … juvenile delinquency? If people are going to be juvenile delinquents, they're going to be delinquents if they hear … Mother Goose rhymes.”