#memphis

Judging from what looks like the popularity of this classic wrestling show is that the people like what they have grown to know and love here in Memphis. ↗

— Jerry Lawler

#grown #here #judging #know #like

I spent a few years here in Memphis, in the late '70s and early '80s, where I was studying a lot of country blues players and their styles. So it seems like every record I'll do, I will appropriate these blues styles that I remember. ↗

— Alex Chilton

#blues #country #early #every #few

The beginning of the shows are different. One time we'll say 'Hello, Denver'. Another time we'll say 'Hello, Memphis'. It's always different. ↗

— Lance Bass

#another #another time #beginning #denver #different

I used to go down every year for the remembrance of Elvis' birthday. Memphis State College invited me to sit in the auditorium and speak to the people for one of those Elvis days. ↗

— Otis Blackwell

#birthday #college #days #down #elvis

That was the big thing when I was growing up, singing on the radio. The extent of my dream was to sing on the radio station in Memphis. Even when I got out of the Air Force in 1954, I came right back to Memphis and started knocking on doors at the radio station. ↗

— Johnny Cash

#air force #back #big #big thing #came

Memphis is in a very lucky position on the map. Everything just gravitated to Memphis for years. ↗

— Steve Cropper

#gravitated #just #lucky #map #memphis

The many sounds of Memphis shaped my early musical career and continue to be an inspiration to this day. ↗

— Justin Timberlake

#continue #day #early #inspiration #many

A friend of mine took me to Memphis advised me that I should get in the musicians' union. He gave me a set of drums and said, Stay on the job, son. ↗

— Levon Helm

#drums #friend #gave #get #i

She would go to Memphis and this was after our divorce. And I would send her to Memphis to be with him. ↗

— Priscilla Presley

#divorce #go #her #him #i

Man, that record came out and was real big in Memphis. They started playing it, and it got real big. Don't know why-the lyrics had no meaning. ↗

— Elvis Presley

#came #got #had #know #lyrics