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. You've gone far away to a place with no horses and very little grass, and you're studying how to write a story with a happy ending. If you can write that ending for yourself, maybe you can come back.

Jennifer Echols

#4. I won't say I won't fight again but I don't think anyone wants to fight me so I am finished and I will just continue with boxing exhibitions.

Larry Holmes

#5. 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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#6. 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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#7. I've always loved Elton John and that is one of my favorite songs by him and Bernie (Taupin). The American songbook is ever-expanding and I feel like it works well with what I was trying to say.

Cheyenne Jackson

#8. 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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#9. Elton John himself never seems pretentious but Bernie Taupin's lyrics often do - sometimes pretentious in a clever sort of way, but pretentious nonetheless. There is a conflict between Elton's and Bernie's personal styles, no doubt about it.

Jon Landau

#10. Treat people kindly. When you are kind to somebody and I don't mean necessarily "buddy-buddy", just show kindness and consideration. Show that people are worthy and you respect them and you are glad they're with you.

Colin Powell

#11. If you can't make up your mind decisively, then you'll never learn to make money anyway.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

#12. So this is pain. So this is wretchedness. So this is misery. I never knew. -Jack

Melissa De La Cruz

#13. Satellite technology is a wonderful thing. From space, we can stare down and look at perimeter fences, huts, mine entrances and even sites of mass graves.

John Sweeney

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

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#15. 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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#16. I love her too, but our neuroses just don't match.

Arthur Miller

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

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

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#21. Every single night, it seemed to be the same seven or eight guys: Harry Nilsson, myself, Mickey Dolenz, Bernie Taupin, Keith Moon when he was in town. It was actually sort of a social club, drinking club, for rock stars that drank - seriously drank.

Alice Cooper

#22. I turned what was a wonderful case of self-reliance into a case of self-exile. Which is not uncommon, I think, in people who grow really early and have to learn how to take care of themselves. They have trouble hinging their lives with anybody else.

Leigh Newman

#23. What story will your life tell? Love your story. Live your story. Lead your story.

Richie Norton

#24. Self belief, Wise choice and Karma are the three main ingredients of Winners.

Sandeep Kakkar

#25. I liked Camille Paglia. I liked her even better when I heard her talk.

Leslie Fiedler

#26. If all purchases are spontaneous and simply driven by what is seen and loved, there is a high risk of ending up with 10 cocktail dresses and no outfits for work.

Aslaug Magnusdottir

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

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