#memphis

When I came out of the military, I had a club in Memphis and I started using the The Bar Kays as my club band. They were still only in the middle school - but I'd take them on the road with me on the weekends, sometimes. ↗

— William Bell

#bar #came #club #had #i

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

I accepted an offer to do a concert for the reopening of the Mall of Memphis. ↗

— Johnny Rivers

#concert #i #mall #memphis #offer

When I got outta High School I was driving a truck. I was just a poor boy from Memphis, Memphis. ↗

— Elvis Presley

#driving #got #high #high school #i

We chose thirteen because that is the age that Elvis left to go to Memphis. ↗

— Henry Dodge

#because #chose #elvis #go #left

Growing up in Memphis and listening to all kinds of music and dreaming... So that was one of the first times I wrote a complete song and set it to music and the whole bit. From then on, I was busy with it. ↗

— William Bell

#busy #complete #dreaming #first #growing

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

#elvis #fun #gang #having #having fun

I got arrested once on stage in Memphis for looking too much like Liza Minnelli. ↗

— David Johansen

#got #i #like #liza #looking

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

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