Mac Davis Quotes :
There was a chance for me to write one song for the section where Elvis sat in his black leather outfit and sang the old hits. At eight oclock the next morning I had written Memories.
Mac Davis
One of my real goals was to hear someone whistling a song I’d written.
MAC DAVIS
It’s pretty amazing to me that my first hit record was an Elvis Presley record.
MAC DAVIS
In the Ghetto, I’d been trying to write for years.
MAC DAVIS
If it was just me and Elvis one on one, which only happened once or twice in the times that I did see him, it was a really comfortable. He was a cool guy. Easy laugh, nice guy.
MAC DAVIS
I’m sure that Elvis was happy for me. I think he was the kind of guy that enjoyed other people’s success, especially if he had something to do with it.
MAC DAVIS
I worked for a publishing company in Hollywood.
MAC DAVIS
I was out on the golf course, a guy came riding out in a golf cart and said, Did you know that Elvis died? And I just said, Well, there you go. It was like I had kinda been expecting it.
MAC DAVIS
I still have an old painting the Colonel gave me. It was the first time the Colonel had been back to the Hilton since Elvis had passed away.
MAC DAVIS
I met the Colonel when Elvis was recording some song I’d written for one of his movies. Elvis was just having fun with the gang and all the Memphis boys and Colonel Parker was sitting over here in like a theater seat.
MAC DAVIS
I had Elvis’ number in my book and I never called it.
MAC DAVIS
I had always wanted to write a song called, The Vicious Circle. I always thought it was like, the kids are born there, they grow up there, they die there.
MAC DAVIS
I didn’t have a lot of communication with Elvis. You had to go through a barricade to get to Elvis. It was people hanging on every word, and I felt very uncomfortable a lot of times.
MAC DAVIS