Bernie Taupin Quotes

#1. We may have limped onto Broadway as the underdogs, but underdogs bite back occasionally.

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#2. One reason I quit doing interviews after years and years and years was because I was making things up.

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#3. The worst thing about me is that I'll buy albums and put them away on the shelf and forget that I've got them.

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#4. Lincolnshire is the Idaho of England. You were either going to drive a tractor for the rest of your life or head for the city to work in a factory.

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#5. My mother's father taught English literature. When I was about ten or eleven, I could recite Macaulay's 'Lays of Ancient Rome.' While other kids were playing pedestrian war games, I'd be Horatius keeping the bridge.

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#6. Early risers catch the world waking and see its true colors.

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#7. My Mother set me on the right track, Marty Robbins made me want to write songs, and Jesus Christ did the rest.

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#8. Until you've seen this trash can dream come true.
You stand at the edge while people run you through.
And I thank the Lord there's people out there like you.
I thank the Lord there's people out there like you.

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#9. Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets.

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#10. I am a simple vessel with complex overtones, opinionated on occasions but willing to listen. Comfortable with reclusiveness and devoted to privacy and family. Patriotic to a fault and allergic to cruelty, ignorance and bad music.

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#11. Elton John's home is laden with trinkets and books relating to Satanism and witchcraft.

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#12. My favorite thing is coming up with titles. The majority of the songs I've every written I've always thought of the title before I've written the song.

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#13. Read books, discover the blues and don't Tweet.

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