#memphis

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

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

I sang in church growing up. Memphis is the blues capital of the world, we like to say. ↗

— Justin Timberlake

#capital #church #growing #growing up #i

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

I picked all the tunes before I went to Memphis, and the band was all set. Willie Mitchell is an arranger like I am, and he let me do what I had to do. ↗

— Otis Rush

#arranger #band #before #had #hell is

The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if he dares to protect himself against the white man or become his rival. ↗

— Ida B. Wells

#avails #become #character #city #dares

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