Top 100 Elton 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.
Elton John
#2. So I am deeply saddened and shocked over the current legislation that is now in place against the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community here in Russia. In my opinion, it is inhumane and it is isolating.
Elton John
#3. If you would look up bad labor relations in the dictionary, you would have an American Airlines logo beside it.
Elton Joe Kendall
#4. I was just genuinely shy. I'd always been a shy kid.
Elton John
#5. On Keith Richards: He's like a monkey with arthritis.
Elton John
#6. I'm 57, I can't look like a 30-year-old. You try to hold age at bay, but there comes a point when you just have to give up gracefully.
Elton John
#7. I rarely wear tennis shoes. I'm 5' 8', I hate being short.
Elton John
#8. And these [pharmaceutical] companies are still threatening to sue. And it's like, you know, do you not have a conscience? Do you not want the world to be a better place? You're still making a profit. How much more of a profit do you want to make?
Elton John
#9. Bring me the head of Elton John ... which is one instance in which meat would not be murder, if it were served on a plate.
Steven Morrissey
#10. 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.
Elton John
#11. I'm kind of a dirty guy, a little Bill Laimbeer-ish. Those are the guys I used to watch growing up. I used to watch Karl Malone; now I watch Boozer and Elton Brand and try to emulate those guys as much as possible because those guys are about the same size as me.
Kevin Love
#12. Shock waves to a tired brain, sends that hungry lady to my door again. She's my shelter from the storm when I feel the rain, entertaining white powder.
Elton John
#13. I thought I knew Elton John, but then it was like, "Woah, Elton's a pimp! He's really amazing." And since Billy and Elton are homies, I'm finally getting it - the two piano boys.
Mac DeMarco
#14. I'd always lived with people - my family, or had people living with me, because I'd never liked being on my own.
Elton John
#15. Getting paid for being laid, guess that's the name of the game.
Elton John
#16. We have come so far. It's become a real bipartisan cause, which I'm very happy to see. And in the case of America, and it's - certainly, without America, we'd be facing catastrophe.
Elton John
#17. I still want to play music but I don't want to look like Donald Duck while I'm doing it.
Elton John
#18. GN'R was five guys who were all into different things. I liked pop and disco, Izzy was into New York rock, Slash loved Aerosmith and Led Zeppelin, Axl was into Genesis and Elton John, and Duff was a punk rocker. We all blended that stuff together.
Steven Adler
#19. Who really needs a new album from me?
Elton John
#20. Well, as I was saying ... everyone's so nice to me, usually.
Elton John
#21. 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.
Elton John
#22. To positively discriminate in favour of groups that have been negatively discriminated against in the past.
Ben Elton
#23. Because they're twins. they've got each other, wolf. This is a tough town in a tough world. But no matter how tough it get - our boys will always have each other.
Ben Elton
#24. What am I supposed to do if I go bald? Get a wig? Fat, goofy, gay, wig. I might as well get a piano and start an Elton John tribute act!
Alan Carr
#25. On a street of right and wrong in every inch of sadness, rocks and tanks go hand in hand with madness.
Elton John
#26. I've got to do something to make up for all those self-absorbed and selfish years when I just, you know, was taking drugs, sitting in my room, doing bad things, whatever.
Elton John
#27. I went up to Prince and said 'I'm a big fan of your stuff' and he looked at me and just walked off ... left me standing there like a ****. He's a prat, but a clever prat.
Elton John
#28. It's so easy to write songs about misery and hard times and sadness. It's much more difficult to write songs about happy and chirpy stuff.
Elton John
#30. It is the vocation of the Christian in every generation to out-think all opposition.
Elton Trueblood
#31. But until we get rid of that shame, then people are going to stay underground, they are not going to get tested, and we're facing an uphill battle [with AIDS].
Elton John
#32. 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.
Elton John
#33. My parents were secular. I am an atheist.
Ben Elton
#34. Everything I thought I'd hate about having children - the crying, the screaming - nothing fazes me. I love it all, and it's relaxed me.
Elton John
#35. Since historical reconstruction is a rational process, only justified and indeed possible if it involves the human reason, what we call history is the mess we call life reduced to some order. pattern and possibly purpose.
Geoffrey Elton
#36. I don't whistle at you down the street. I would if I could, but I can't whistle you see.
Elton John
#37. 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.
Elton John
#38. You get the same equal rights that we do when we have a civil partnership. Heterosexual people get married. We can have civil partnerships.
Elton John
#39. 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.
Elton John
#40. And it's one more beer and I don't hear you any more.
Elton John
#41. Hold me closer tiny dancer, count the headlights on the highway. Lay me down in sheets of linen, you had a busy day today.
Elton John
#42. Well, the stuff that I liked growing up was AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, but I also liked the Beatles and guys like Cat Stevens and Elton John.
Dave Mustaine
#43. Screw humanity. I don't give the whole stinking bunch of us more than a couple of generations and good riddance. The universe is better off without us.
Ben Elton
#44. No tears to damn you when jealousy burns.
Elton John
#45. The writers in the newspapers could sounds smart because they did not have the responsibilities of decision, and they could sound bold by enunciating positions which they were not required to implement.
Elton Trueblood
#46. I think performers are all show-offs anyway, especially musicians. Unless you show off, you're not going to get noticed.
Elton John
#47. I'm so proud to be on a Kate Bush record; she's always marched to the beat of her own drum.
Elton John
#48. Our witness, one Edward Littleton, was as gay as Elton John's handbag.
Ann Somerville
#49. In addition, California spends nearly $1 billion a year in Medi-Cal services for an average of 780,000 illegal immigrants a month, over and above emergency health services.
Elton Gallegly
#50. 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.
Elton John
#51. Lincoln did not admire those who think it is a mark of sophistication to sneer at patriotism. He believed that God has a will for a country and that is honest man should rejoice in the effort to try to remake his country after the Divine pattern, insofar as that pattern is revealed to him.
Elton Trueblood
#52. The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.
Ben Elton
#53. 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.
Elton John
#54. Someone saved my life tonight, sugar bear, you almost had your hooks in me, didn't you dear?
Elton John
#55. When it comes to the stage, I can't help but be inspired by people like George Clinton, Elton John and Alice Cooper.
CeeLo Green
#56. Football today would certainly not be the same if it had not existed.
Elton Welsby
#58. Better to build a bridge than a wall.
Elton John
#59. 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.
Elton John
#60. I was ready to approach her with my English charm, when her brass knuckled boyfriend grabbed me by the arm.
Elton John
#61. While a strong presence on our southern border is imperative, the border cannot be secured unless we enforce our internal laws and stop ignoring the open complicity of U.S. companies and foreign nations to promote illegal activities.
Elton Gallegly
#62. Once I'd heard 'Modern Times' by Bob Dylan, it really changed the way I wanted to make records.
Elton John
#63. Bands today have to learn their craft by putting the hard work in that we did when we were young performers.
Elton John
#64. I'm not everybody's cup of tea. But sometimes criticism can be hurtful. Be respectful. I'm a good piano player, I can sing well, I write good songs. If you don't like it, fair enough. But give me a break.
Elton John
#65. He'd been drinking in a bar downtown, when he thought he heard a choir of angels singing in the Tiki Lounge. And that's when he got religion.
Elton John
#66. Tina Turner gave me the highway blues.
Elton John
#67. I do like Britney Spears. I think she's cute. I think she's fun. And I like her records. You know, I'm not a pop snob whatsoever. I think she makes great pop records.
Elton John
#68. I love people who expect me to wear great, feathery costumes- and I do it. It's like an actor getting into his costume for his part. I don't really feel that part until I'm into whatever I'm going to wear.
Elton John
#69. I loved writing 'Two Brothers' more than anything else I have written. It's the first book I've written that I've always known I wanted to write. Having said that, it also kept me awake at nights.
Ben Elton
#70. It was Saturday late, have you seen my mates, can you tell me when the boys get here? Well, it's seven o'clock and I want to rock and get a belly full of beer.
Elton John
#71. I listen to Billy Joel. He is fabulous. I saw him with Elton John when they toured together, it was so great.
Marlee Matlin
#72. We worked very hard to make the lyrics suit the music. I can't, like Elton John, for example, compose by lyrics. Elton has a great talent for that. Whatever you give him, including your questions, he composes in half an hour and makes a great song out of it.
Rick Wright
#73. I just think you shouldn't expect people to pay money to see someone sing live and then lip-synch.
Elton John
#74. To forgive and be forgiven, if it's the last thing I do, then in death's release I may find the peace that in life I never knew.
Elton John
#75. 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.
Elton John
#76. When you're a kid, they tell you it's all ... grow up. Get a job. Get married. Get a house. Have a kid, and that's it. But the truth is, the world is so much stranger than that. It's so much darker. And so much madder. And so much better.
Elton Pope
#77. This is a tremendous assest for the club, a tremendous headache lifted from our shoulders, really.
Elton John
#78. And I trusted someone to look after me on the business side of life.
Elton John
#79. The profound paradox is that the great man became more confident in his approach to others, including the man of his own Cabinet, but he recognized that his major confidence was not himself but in Another.
Elton Trueblood
#80. You should never take more than you give
Elton John
#81. An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make.
Elton John
#82. 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
#83. President Reagan is now at rest. We mourn his passing, but we are grateful for the gifts he gave us: a safer world, strong economic base, and a renewed belief in America's greatness.
Elton Gallegly
#84. If Elton John and Madonna had a baby it would be Lady Gaga.
Jon Bon Jovi
#85. If you write great songs with meaning and emotion, they will last for ever because songs are the key to everything. Songs will outlast the artist and they will go on for ever if they are good.
Elton John
#86. Well, I've had my fair share in Britain of battling the tabloids.
Elton John
#88. I have no one to leave the money to. I'm a single man. I like spending my money.
Elton John
#89. I really appreciate my performing so much better, as I get older. I don't take it for granted anymore. I really relish it and love it.
Elton John
#90. Yes, OK, farty is a silly word. I wish I'd never used it. I'm 34. Perhaps it was a word for my 20s.
Ben Elton
#91. I remember Elton John used to be their owner and he is my favourite singer! I hope the match will be an opportunity to meet Elton John!
Carlo Ancelotti
#92. Religion is never devoid of emotion, any more than love is. It is not a defect of religion, but rather its glory, that it speaks always the language of feeling.
D. Elton Trueblood
#93. I've only been interested in the artistic side of life.
Elton John
#94. Dave and I as a couple seem to be the acceptable face of gayness, and that's great. I've got to use that power to try and do what I can - or we have - to try to make the situations in Russia and Poland better.
Elton John
#95. The great thing about rock and roll is that someone like me can be a star.
Elton John
#96. The spoken word is never really effective unless it is backed up by a life, but it is also true that the living deed is never adequate without the support the spoken word can provide.
D. Elton Trueblood
#97. It is by now beyond question that Elton John is a competent and classy entertainer. Few people who have achieved his popularity have succeeded in maintaining his standards for performance and professionalism.
Jon Landau
#98. The only criticism heard with any frequency of Elton John's first American album, 'Elton John,' was that the production was too grandiose. The melodies were superb, and lyrics frequently very good, and the performances flawless.
Jon Landau
#99. I'm glad I've given up drugs and alcohol. It would be awful to be like Keith Richards. He's pathetic. It's like a monkey with arthritis, trying to go onstage and look young.
Elton John
#100. I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens. I can not bear gardening, but I love gardens.
Elton John
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