Top 100 Quotes About Elton John
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. Our witness, one Edward Littleton, was as gay as Elton John's handbag.
Ann Somerville
#8. 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
#9. I listen to Billy Joel. He is fabulous. I saw him with Elton John when they toured together, it was so great.
Marlee Matlin
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. If Elton John and Madonna had a baby it would be Lady Gaga.
Jon Bon Jovi
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. 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
#17. I wore a lot of vintage clothing. I dressed like a reporter, with a little card in my hat. I had these fantasies of who I wanted to be, so I'd dress like an explorer, a cowboy. I dressed up like Elton John a lot too. That was another period.
Illeana Douglas
#18. Rayner can't go into politics, she's got more shit on her than Elton John's cock!
Garth Ennis
#19. I wrote poetry, which got me into lyrics. Stevie Wonder, Carole King, Elton John pulled me into pop. I started singing with a band - just for fun - when I was 17. And pretty soon, I was thinking I could sing pop in English as well as Spanish.
Gloria Estefan
#20. 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
#21. If it weren't for Liberace, there would be no Madonna or Lady Gaga, Elton John, Bette Midler, or Elvis because it was Liberace who helped the King glitz up his act.
Robin Leach
#22. It depends who they are. If it's Mick (Jagger) or the Old Guard as I call them, yeah, they're the Old Guard. Elton (John), David (Bowie) are the newies. I don't feel like an old uncle, dear, 'cause I'm not that much older than half of 'em, hehe.
John Lennon
#23. Freddie Mercury and Elton John are, like, two of the biggest Influences in my whole life. And probably always will be.
Axl Rose
#24. The absense of a soul, by the way, makes it easy to inhabit a body. (Therefore, why is Elton John still pudging around unpossessed? I hear you ask?)
Glen Duncan
#25. I grew up with 'best-of' cassettes. My first Smiths record was 'Hatful Of Hollow,' and I had hits albums by Elton John and The Cars.
Brandon Flowers
#26. You know, we recently played a benefit with my husband, Elvis Costello, and Sir Elton John, who is a mutual friend of ours. Playing with Elvis and Elton and accompanying them with my band was a pretty euphoric experience.
Diana Krall
#27. I won't apologize for ticket prices. I think we're well worth it. We consider ourselves in the elite touring acts, like the Stones, Elton John, Paul McCartney.
Glenn Frey
#28. Elton John said to me, "I have all the negatives."
Jon Bon Jovi
#29. Then, in 2000, John Reid, Elton John's former manager, asked me to audition for the stage version of The Graduate he was producing. So I worked on it, got the part, and after three weeks' rehearsal I was on stage!
Jerry Hall
#31. I'm a big fan of piano-based rock music like Elton John, Ben Folds, and even Queen.
Ian Axel
#32. My favorite Elton John song is "Daniel"; my son is named Daniel and he's partly named after my wife's father, but also partly named after that song.
Steven Drozd
#33. I really love all types of music. I'm really open to that. I really love Bruno Mars, Justin Timberlake and some James Taylor and Elton John stuff.
Hailee Steinfeld
#34. Everybody who's anybody has been competitive and over-sensitive and a bit silly. Look at Paul McCartney, look at Elton John. They're jealous of Justin Timberlake. I'm sure they were jealous of me when I was in my imperial phase.
Robbie Williams
#35. Oh yeah you do, especially since those jeans do things to your ass that would knock the gay out of Elton John, Bradon retorted.
Kristen Ashley
#36. I have gotten into a lot of trouble in my life for being brutally honest. Sometimes I put both my feet in my mouth. But like Elton John, I'm still standing.
Cristina Saralegui
#37. A lot of the players I'm with, thank God, we're all still vertical. We've lost so many great players through the years, and we're still standing, as Elton John says.
Ringo Starr
#38. I have lots of records, quite a collection, actually, that I stole from my mom. I have the original 'Thriller' album and I have a really great 'Elton John's Greatest Hits,' and I also have a N.E.R.D. album. Records sound more original. They have more edge.
Elisha Cuthbert
#39. One of the most memorable live performances of my career took place on the 2002 American Music Awards show when I had to the opportunity to sing with Elton John. I was moved by the way he played the piano onstage.
Tim McGraw
#40. I've met Nicole Kidman, Elton John, loads of people.
Allan Carr
#41. One month I'll be completely obsessed with Bob Dylan and the next Arcade Fire. I like early Elton John and David Bowie, Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen. I listen to a lot of American bands. But I like listening to new bands, too.
Tom Odell
#42. You'd have thought they'd have been on about Sir Elton John, and the fantastic goals David has scored which have got us through to the World Cup. But what they were really interested in was that I was holding a bag that had 'Sex' written on it. It's quite bizarre.
Victoria Beckham
#43. Oh, yeah, I've always thought of covering some of my influences like Billy Joel, Elton John, Stevie Wonder.
Jon Secada
#44. My songwriting is so influenced by orchestrated music, dramatic, super glam rock-y stuff. Two of my biggest influences in songwriting were Elton John and Freddie Mercury.
Brandi Carlile
#45. Solo artists are generally totally insane. Elton John? Slightly eccentric. George Michael? He's mad as custard.
Noel Gallagher
#47. I knew how the suits used to talk about the artists, with barely concealed contempt. So I knew what was waiting for me round the corner. Because I wasn't one of those very unusual people like Neil Diamond or Elton John, whose careers just seem to span the decades. I knew I wasn't one of them.
Nick Lowe
#48. Elton John's home is laden with trinkets and books relating to Satanism and witchcraft.
Bernie Taupin
#49. When Elton John sang a duet with the white rapper Eminem on a Grammy telecast, rap went mainstream. Massive parental headaches followed.
Bill O'Reilly
#50. Actually, the reason I look like this is because my father was from Sweden and my mother was Elton John.
Jim Gaffigan
#51. House Speaker John Boehner said the Republican Party will no longer stand in the way of gay marriage. Then Boehner said, 'Now can I go to Elton John's Oscar party?'
Conan O'Brien
#52. I hope that somewhere in Small Town, U.S.A., a 15-year-old kid looks to me as a role model the way I looked at the Indigo Girls and Elton John as role models.
Brandi Carlile
#53. I did a cake for the 60th birthday of Elton John, for Britney Spears' 27th birthday and for the 'Circus' album she put out - the cake had circus themes. I prepared a cake for a surprise 82nd birthday event for the architect Frank Gehry; the cake was comprised of mini-replicas of his buildings.
Ron Ben-Israel
#54. Elton John's opinion turned the label's opinion around, all in a day.
Barry White
#55. The collaboration wish list is huge, very long. It goes from people like Elton John, for whom I have an unbelievable amount of respect, to Snoop Dogg, whom I also respect a great deal.
Dave Koz
#56. As long as Elton John can bring forth one performance per album on the order of 'Someone Saved My Life Tonight,' the chance remains that he will become something more than the great entertainer he already is and go on to make a lasting contribution to rock.
Jon Landau
#57. You know who sang at Rush Limbaugh's wedding? Elton John! According to Rush, gay people can sing at weddings. Just not their own.
Craig Ferguson
#58. Liberace was a miracle. You talk about who he was and what he did, and then you look at who he inspired, from Elton John to Cher to Michael Jackson to Bette Midler. There are so many people that came to see him. Elvis was there, watching his shows.
Scott Bakula
#59. I've always been into guitars ... we want to put keyboards on, but keyboard players don't look cool onstage, they just keep their heads down. There has never been a cool keyboard player, apart from Elton John.
Noel Gallagher
#60. You don't hear a film director saying 'Money mustn't go out of the industry' to actors. You don't hear a concert promoter saying 'We must make sure that money doesn't go out of our industry' to Elton John. Some people in football seem to think, 'Never mind the players, let's get on with the game.'
Gordon Taylor
#61. Nobody put the camera on the background singers who were singing. It was on Stevie Wonder. It was on Elton John. It was on whoever was the lead singer out front. We were 20 feet from stardom.
Darlene Love
#62. As Elton John, my days on pop radio are over, and I know that and I accept it and I'm not unhappy about it.
Elton John
#63. My inspirations include the Beatles - love, love, love them - Elton John, Carole King, and Stevie Wonder.
Gloria Estefan
#64. Sometimes it's good to do something that you've never done before, so yesterday, I went out to buy Elton John's new album.
Arthur Smith
#65. I got to know Elton John's older music by learning to like his newer stuff. 'The Lion King?' That's what I like.
Aaron Schock
#66. Rod Stewart, Elton John and I were going to form a band called Hair, Nose & Teeth after the three of us. But it hasn't happened because none of us can agree on the order of the words!
Freddie Mercury
#67. I met Elton John at an Interview dinner, and we just sort of became friends. He's got such a wicked sense of humor.
Moby
#68. I can remember - barely - when Elton John was still a good songwriter, or at least capable of writing good songs.
Terry Teachout
#69. Bruce Springsteen's a rock star. Elton John is a rock star. I'm a folk musician. Honestly, I think that's true.
James Taylor
#70. My big influences are piano artists like Billy Joel and Elton John.
Kyle Dunnigan
#71. Liberace was Elton John and Lady Gaga before they even dreamed of it.
Jerry Weintraub
#72. As much as I love heavy riffs, I like The Eagles, Neil Young, Elton John, Crowded House.
Zakk Wylde
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. I was just genuinely shy. I'd always been a shy kid.
Elton John
#76. On Keith Richards: He's like a monkey with arthritis.
Elton John
#77. 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
#78. I rarely wear tennis shoes. I'm 5' 8', I hate being short.
Elton John
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. 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
#82. 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
#83. Getting paid for being laid, guess that's the name of the game.
Elton John
#84. 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
#85. I still want to play music but I don't want to look like Donald Duck while I'm doing it.
Elton John
#86. Who really needs a new album from me?
Elton John
#87. Well, as I was saying ... everyone's so nice to me, usually.
Elton John
#88. 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
#89. On a street of right and wrong in every inch of sadness, rocks and tanks go hand in hand with madness.
Elton John
#90. 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
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. 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
#94. 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
#95. I don't whistle at you down the street. I would if I could, but I can't whistle you see.
Elton John
#96. 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
#97. 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
#98. 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
#99. And it's one more beer and I don't hear you any more.
Elton John
#100. 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
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