Originally Posted by
Raised on Rock
ELvis art was not to write songs, but to perform songs, or more exactly, Elvis art was to sing, just as Dylan stated: -His voice is his instrument-. Those covers, or in other terms, the songs he chosed to do, were like his canvas; and all his musical background which was inmense was the paint, the gamma of colors at his disposal, and it is the -through his eyes, though his own experience- which gave the songs their own life, their own true.
There are diferent kinds of artists, and diferent kinds of art itself, one thing is songwriting another is to perform, to sing; yes, Elvis didnt do songwriting, as well as he didnt paint or whatever, but you see, he was an artist (you will not say Bach was no artist casue he didnt dance), well, Elvis didnt write songs, his artistry is somewhere else, yes, he is pretty underates as an artist, but, whatever, a guy who painted some sunflowers was a joke once, that guy of the sunflowers was more than underrated for a long time, because you know, he had no... we had no place to fit him in into the expected ground of what we usually undertand about life.
As Elvis once said: I don?t play for snob interests.