Potent Quotables: Chris Brown on Elvis' Moves

You know the constant "whine" that Elvis stole his music or style is getting old.
Ray Charles said he listened to the Grand Ole Opray-and he recorded several country hits and albums in the 50s-did he steal???
Chuck Berrys first hit "Maybelline" is based on the Bob Wills song "Ida Red" and Chuck says some of the first music he heard was the Grand Old Opray-did Chuch steal??? Lets be fair-all music usually contains elements of things the artist has been "influenced by" including black artists.

Whites like you can't accept the fact that you can not dance unless you learn it from black americans who you know are the best dancers in the world and the best musicians in the world where the beatles and Elvis and others copied or styles of music blacks created in America! You whites call any white person the king when in fact all they did was copy blacks so in fact blacks made your "kings"! If Elvis is the king then Little Richard and James Brown are God! Blacks are just defending their stuff from theiving lying whites. Michael Jackson is nothing but R&B and he became the number 1 musician - but then comes the whites to try to put him in POP category and called him the King of Pop. And all POP music is is whites trying to sound black and missing it!

to your jealous butt! blacks did do excessive more things on their own besides rap and sports - we invented and help create the most unique and powerfulest country America when it was nothing so that poverty european dumb immigrants like you came a running over here from your jacked up poor country to live our better lives, blacks invented many things you are now using, created the best music that you whites copy and it rules the world and it is swing, jazz, blues, rock & roll and more that rap.... need I say anymore liar!

No one stole anything when it came to Elvis. You either got it or you don't when it came to dancing in the 60's,
50's. The man had IT. Most boys today do not.
that's all one needs to say.

"try naming a single black artist who was singing rockabilly and sounded like Elvis [by 1955]."

Junior Parker, "Love My Baby," 1953.

Hey guys. Relax.

Chris Brown does not hate Elvis. He did this interview after he did his rendition of Jailhouse Rock. This quote is taken out of context. He was praising Elvis and was joking around that Elvis had to be "hanging around the brothas" to have those moves.

And as for Elvis stealing, you guys need to do some research. He didn't steal anything.

Big Mama Thorton's "Hound Dog" was written by TWO WHITE JEWISH guys named Leiber and Stroller. Elvis did a cover of it 5 YEARS LATER and changed the sound of the song and some of the lyrics. They are two different songs in the way they are performed.

Also, Elvis was GIVEN the demos of "All Shook Up" and "Don't Be Cruel" by Otis Blackwell. Elvis liked the songs and co-wrote some of the lyrics. Blackwell still got credit for writing the songs, and Elvis performed them and got credit for co-writing. He didn't steal anything...

Black people shouldn't hate Elvis. He opened the doors for everyone to express their music. Without Elvis to transcend the racial barriers of the music industry, who knows how music would be today...

I personally can't stand Elvis. I don't agree with the title he was given because he doesn't deserve it. He did as it was stated sing his best known song "Hound Dog" from Big Mamma Thorton as it was stated. The only reason he is recognized or at least believed to be the writer of the song is because he was white and the time placement. It wasn't uncommon for a white to redo a song that a black had released previously and above that get recognition for it. It was just another form of the bias opinions of the people who owned musical industries and such.

As for his moves...I agree he didn't steal them. They look unnatural for him in my opinion, but they aren't stolen. You can't steal dancing, it is something you just pick up. No one owns dancing. It can be associated with a race, but not owned. Musical genre can't be stolen or owned either. Rap and Hip hop are believed to be only for blacks, but that shouldn't and isn't true. Now rap and Hip Hop did branch off from styles common in Jamaica, but that doesn't make them owned by blacks. It just means that they have black roots. There is a difference between a genre being black or white and it having roots to the black or white culture. A very big difference! It needs to be realized and respected.

Just my little tid bit, I personally believe that James Brown was the king. He taught Micheal Jackson after all. I won't say he created the moon walk because it has of course probably been done before we just don't know it. He did how ever teach Micheal Jackson how to dance and was also the better at it. So Micheal Jackson definitely loses, but would win against Elvis in my opinion. I have given Elvis a chance and listened to him as well as watched him with an open mind. I personally found it horrible, but again that is only my opinion.

You can't truly decide if one person is better then another when it comes to singing or dancing. It is a matter of perspective as well as point of view. Because of this no one can truly be the king or queen of any musical or dance style. They can how ever have had more publicity and such. So really the title of King Of Rock And Roll is invalid if you see it as a title of the greatest and more talented rock and roll singer. It isn't possible to prove such a thing.

i love chris brown and thats his opinion.

7. Elvis was NOT the greatest mover of all time. Michael Jackson is. Now THAT is no contest. All Elvis did was wiggle his hips. Woohoo. Big flipping deal. Michael Jackson actually DANCED! You need to get in touch with reality. Michael is the true king. (And don't start about the plastic surgery or what you think he may or may not have done to any stupid little money grubbing kids crap. This is ONLY ABOUT HIS DANCING ABILITIES!)

Michelle at 6:38AM on Jan 6th 2008

micheal jackson is a wacko dufus
& elvis stole nobodies moves!
elvis is elvis!
he had his own style, not any1 elses...
who evr says " he stole our style "
is just tryin to say that that culture
has more talent or something... u get what
im tryin 2 say? no disrespect invvolvedd

Elvis Presley didn't steal anything. Music is by it's very nature, derivative. What a lot of folks don't realize is that Elvis came by all of his vocal and physical mannerisms honestly. In other words, he was steeped in Black music and culture as a child and early teens. He had a great respect and love for artists and singers of all shades. Color really didn't matter to him. I think he would be quite shocked by anybody even suggesting that he stole from anybody. The way he sang and the way he moved was really who he was...it was not an act or a mere affectation. It was, I believe, an outward expression of his love and respect for all kinds of music.
The way he sang and the way he dressed pretty much got his **s kicked all through high school, and made him the object of derision and scorn by multitudes of media types all over the US after he became famous. I believe Chris Brown is entitled to his opinion. A lot of folks share it. But I think what Elvis was doing needs to be examined in the context of what was the world was like at that time, ie: the racial inequality that existed in the south.
By the way, Big Mama Thornton did not write Hound Dog, even if she was the first to record it. It was written by Leiber and Stoller, the two guys who wrote most of Elvis' first big hits.