Bernie Taupin Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

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

Bernie Taupin

#5. 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.

Bernie Taupin

#6. 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

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

Leslie Fiedler

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

Sandeep Kakkar

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

Richie Norton

#10. 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

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

Bernie Taupin

#12. 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.

Bernie Taupin

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

Bernie Taupin

#14. 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.

Bernie Taupin

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

Arthur Miller

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

Bernie Taupin

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

Bernie Taupin

#18. 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

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

Melissa De La Cruz

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

Robert T. Kiyosaki

#21. 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

#22. 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.

Bernie Taupin

#23. 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.

Bernie Taupin

#24. 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.

Bernie Taupin

#25. 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

#26. 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

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

Bernie Taupin

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

Bernie Taupin