Top 100 Elton John Quotes
#1. Well, I was making a record, and I had to choose a name, because they said, you know, you can't make a record under the name of Reg Dwight, because it's never going to - you know, it's not attractive enough.
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#2. I was just genuinely shy. I'd always been a shy kid.
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#3. So excuse me forgetting, but these things I do
You see I've forgotten, if they're green or they're blue
Anyway, the thing is, what I really mean
Yours are the sweetest eyes, I've ever seen.
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#4. I'd always lived with people - my family, or had people living with me, because I'd never liked being on my own.
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#5. Getting paid for being laid, guess that's the name of the game.
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#6. But you know, I have a pretty good relationship with the press and the paparazzi. It's just when they step over the line that, you know, enough's enough.
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#7. On a street of right and wrong in every inch of sadness, rocks and tanks go hand in hand with madness.
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#8. I've dodged so many bullets. Not just because of unsafe sex, but because of the amount of drugs I did, the amount of alcohol, the amount of work I was doing. I started the Elton John AIDS Foundation because I got so lucky.
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#9. I used to take hostages in my relationships and not let people be independent. It always ended in disaster, because you take away people's identity and they end up full of resentment.
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#10. You get the same equal rights that we do when we have a civil partnership. Heterosexual people get married. We can have civil partnerships.
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#11. The thing about Vegas is, I don't have to fly anywhere, and that really helps. It means I stay in one place for three weeks at a time instead of flying backwards and forwards.
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#12. Hold me closer tiny dancer, count the headlights on the highway. Lay me down in sheets of linen, you had a busy day today.
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#13. I've never been jealous of anybody's success. I've been flummoxed by it because I don't understand it, but I'm not jealous of it.
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#14. I grew up in the Fifties and early Sixties, which were still quite conservative, and I wasn't given any information about sex or anything like that; I went out with girls at school because one had to. I didn't experiment with sex for quite a long time.
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#16. Better to build a bridge than a wall.
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#17. And the danger is - and it's happening - is we're seeing an incredibly big rise amongst young gay people, young heterosexual people as far as catching HIV, which is, you know, in an educated country like this or in Britain, it's frightening.
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#18. Once I'd heard 'Modern Times' by Bob Dylan, it really changed the way I wanted to make records.
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#19. I grew up at my grandmother's house, and she had a beautiful garden. I used to hate mowing the lawn and weeding, which is what you do when you're a kid. I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens.
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#20. And I trusted someone to look after me on the business side of life.
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#21. You should never take more than you give
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#22. Well, I've had my fair share in Britain of battling the tabloids.
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#23. I've only been interested in the artistic side of life.
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#24. When stars collide, like you and I, no shadow blocks the sun - The One
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#25. Anyone who lip-synchs in public on stage when you pay 75 pounds to see them should be shot.
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#26. If I was to say what I am, I'd be a Labour man. I like Tony Blair a lot, I think he's a good man. And in America I'd definitely be a Democrat; I'd never be a Republican.
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#27. You know, it's a very treatable disease. You shouldn't feel ashamed. But I'm afraid that's carried on very much so from the first days of AIDS, when it was basically a gay disease. And then, of course, you know, it affected everybody.
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#28. Laughing like children, living like lovers, rolling like thunder, under the covers, and I guess that's why they call it the blues.
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#29. I went to a mixed school and I can't remember being bullied at school, ever. I was quite large, in those days. Usually, if you're going to be a bully, you'll pick on someone who is small. I didn't bully anybody, and I don't remember being bullied.
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#30. I don't want a Jennifer Lopez wedding or anything like that. A commitment ceremony would be a nice thing to do.
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#31. Sweet freedom whispered in my ear, you're a butterfly, and butterflies are free to fly, fly away, high-away, bye-bye.
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#33. But actually, my drug addiction thing, I was so stubborn.
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#34. All this science I don't understand, it's just my job five days a week.
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#35. When I say I don't have to write pop songs anymore, there's no way I'm going to get on the radio at 60 years of age unless I'm doing a duet with Gaga or I was on 'All of the Lights,' which was a Kanye West record that managed to get on the radio.
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#36. It's like trying to drink whisky from a bottle of wine.
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#37. People in England are so bloody nosy.
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#38. I've got that resilient thing inside me. But I wasn't a happy bunny.
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#39. I didn't have sex until I was 23 and that was with a man. I made up for lost time after that in a hurry. I wish I could have had sex when I was, like, 14, 15 or 16 because that's such an exciting age to have sex.
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#40. I spent the last week of Ryan's life in Indiana, Indianapolis, with Jeanne and Andrea, Jeanne, his mother, Andrea, his sister, and some other beautiful people who came. And it taught me a lesson.
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#41. You don't know being a performer what kind of performance you're going to give. You know you can give a certain quality of performance, but as I grow older I'm much more content in my own skin because when I come offstage, I have a balance in my life.
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#42. My old man is drunker than a barrel full of monkeys, but my old lady she don't care.
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#43. I've had my fills of cocaine and pills.
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#44. For me, music is so passionate, I have to give it my all every time I go onstage. Onstage, it was always comfortable for me, because that's where I felt at home.
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#45. I knew about AIDS. My friends were dying right, left, and center. I did a record with Dionne Warwick, Stevie Wonder, and Gladys Knight. I did a couple of benefits.
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#46. We were both very much the same. We were both very impulsive. We both loved life. We both loved shopping. We both had a love of clothes, obviously, because he was the designer that I kind of wore forever and ever.
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#47. I've watched other people singing, I've become a much better singer. I've become a singer that plays the piano instead of a piano player that sings.
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#48. I am the biggest technophobe of all time.
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#49. I am the most well-known homosexual in the world.
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#50. I have a much better relationship with the press than I did, I think because I stood my ground.
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#51. If there's a God in heaven, what's he waiting for? If He can't hear the children, then he must see the war.
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#52. What we should be doing as musicians is trying to bring people together.
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#53. Cause what the hell is wrong with expressing yourself, trying to be me?
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#54. It's very important to have two tiaras when you're on the road; you never know when you'll be invited to something really formal.
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#55. I can't think of anything until I've got printed words in front of me. I never wake up in the middle of the night with a song in my head.
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#56. I'll even pay sometimes for a woman that's ugly.
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#57. The only thing the record companies put out now is 'Best of,'
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#59. The less I say the more my work gets done.
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#60. What a scandal, if I die. Yeah, I'm gonna kill myself, get a little headline news.
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#61. I never really made a full album in Los Angeles before.
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#62. I want a love that don't mean a thing.
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#63. Rocket Man, burning out his fuse up here alone.
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#64. I was sitting in the classroom trying to look intelligent in case the teacher looked at me.
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#65. Ask anyone. If it hadn't been for Elvis, I don't know where popular music would be. He was the one that started it all off, and he was definitely the start of it for me.
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#66. Don't judge the picture by the frame, every man is not the same
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#67. Take me to the pilot of your soul.
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#68. The work became like the drug addiction, the clothes, anything in my life. It became - it's become an addiction. I'm addicted to working.
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#69. This life's a long old road
We shouldn't have to walk alone
But if you find the right companion
You won't feel so worn out when you've grown
All life is precious
And every day's a prize
And sometimes you'll find an answer in the sky
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#70. At heart I've always been a music fan. That part of me has never changed since I was a little kid, sitting in a room watching a record go round, looking at the colour of the labels.
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#71. There's no pressure for me to go out there and say, I've got to have a top 40 hit because it's not going to happen.
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#72. We live in an age, in an era where there is so much negativity, there is so much violence in the world, there is so much unrest and people are at war, that I wanted to promote the word love and red signifies love.
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#73. It's just so wonderful to have someone in the house like a child to turn your attention to. It's not about you anymore, it's about this lovely little human being.
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#74. The worst thing you can do to a child, and I've seen it happen so many times, is the silver spoon.
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#75. Top dog, top hat, move that muscle, move that fat.
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#76. Well, I'm a huge fan of Ryan Adams, who's from North Carolina. And he's beginning to break really quite big.
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#77. I used to get my money at the end of the week, buy my mum something, or buy a record, and that was it.
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#78. I have a lot of money stashed away, but I do live my life from day to day.
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#79. I love every minute of fatherhood, staying up all night, changing nappies, kids crying, I find it really funny and inspiring. It connects you to the world in a new way.
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#80. I've always enjoyed and loved playing live. I relish and cherish it more than anything else because you never know what the performance is going to be.
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#81. I love the way the American trade magazines never give anybody a bad review because they're afraid the advertising will be taken out. It's so hysterical.
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#82. Lawdy Mama, those Friday nights when Suzy wore her dresses down tight.
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#83. As a child, as a teenager, I was kind of not allowed to wear fashionable clothes.
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#84. The ugliest woman you'll ever meet, but she's mine and she's ugly.
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#85. I hate to say this, but I always listen to the music and the instrumentation first, and then grab on to the lyrics later.
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#86. Only take as much as you give, in the circle of life.
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#87. I heard Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis, and that was it. I didn't ever want to be anything else. I just started banging away and semi-studied classical music at the Royal Academy of Music but sort of half-heartedly.
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#88. Simon Cowell and I are great friends, and we wind each other up. Rod Stewart and I do the same thing.
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#89. Your eyes have died, but you see more than I.
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#90. They [sic] ain't gonna stop me from coming here, baby.
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#91. You can beat her, but don't mistreat her. Oh, don't believe that woman please.
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#92. Rock and roll came in and changed my life and changed the whole music scene forever, and then I grew to love R&B and Motown and all black music, gospel music. But I never dismiss any form of music. I listen to everything.
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#93. Goodbye Norma Jean From the young man in the 22nd row Who sees you as something more than sexual More than just our Marilyn Monroe
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#94. I get bombed for breakfast in the morning, I get bombed for dinner.
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#95. We can't keep thinking of gay people as being ostracised; we can't keep thinking of Muslim people as being ostracised because of the fundamentalism that occurs in Islam. Muslim people have to do something about speaking up about it. We can't judge a book by its cover.
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#96. I tour as many countries as possible, and I've toured every state in America, plus every province in Canada.
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#97. I'm addicted to working. I mean, I have a list of 100 countries I want to play in. I'm basically killing myself by travelling so much, for no reason whatsoever.
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#98. I wasn't involved in anything. I wasn't out - you know, I know I wasn't in ACT UP. I wasn't with Larry Kramer. I wasn't by his side. I wasn't saying what I should do, because, by all accounts, I was a drug addict and an alcoholic. And I was living in a complete bubble of self-absorption.
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#99. I've always wanted to smash a guitar over someone's head. You just can't do that with a piano.
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#100. I don't have to compete in the charts. I can just be myself as a musician, a songwriter and play with the musicians that I really love.
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