Quotes by Mac Davis

Don't Cry Daddy is a pretty sad song. He got to the end of it and it was just real quiet and Elvis says, I'm gonna cut that someday for my daddy. And, by God, he did. He lived up to his word. (Mac Davis)

Every performer who ever performed in rock and roll or even close to it is lying if they tell you that they weren't influenced in some way or another by Elvis Presley. He turned the world around. (Mac Davis)

I had Elvis' number in my book and I never called it. (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 worked for a publishing company in Hollywood. (Mac Davis)

In the Ghetto, I'd been trying to write for years. (Mac Davis)

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)