Top 100 Quotes About Elton John
#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. I was just genuinely shy. I'd always been a shy kid.
Elton John
#4. On Keith Richards: He's like a monkey with arthritis.
Elton John
#5. 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
#6. I rarely wear tennis shoes. I'm 5' 8', I hate being short.
Elton John
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. Getting paid for being laid, guess that's the name of the game.
Elton John
#14. 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
#15. I still want to play music but I don't want to look like Donald Duck while I'm doing it.
Elton John
#16. 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
#17. Who really needs a new album from me?
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#18. Well, as I was saying ... everyone's so nice to me, usually.
Elton John
#19. 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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#20. 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
#21. On a street of right and wrong in every inch of sadness, rocks and tanks go hand in hand with madness.
Elton John
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. I don't whistle at you down the street. I would if I could, but I can't whistle you see.
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#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. 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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#32. And it's one more beer and I don't hear you any more.
Elton John
#33. 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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#34. 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
#35. No tears to damn you when jealousy burns.
Elton John
#36. I think performers are all show-offs anyway, especially musicians. Unless you show off, you're not going to get noticed.
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#37. I'm so proud to be on a Kate Bush record; she's always marched to the beat of her own drum.
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#38. Our witness, one Edward Littleton, was as gay as Elton John's handbag.
Ann Somerville
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. Someone saved my life tonight, sugar bear, you almost had your hooks in me, didn't you dear?
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#42. 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
#44. Better to build a bridge than a wall.
Elton John
#45. 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
#46. I was ready to approach her with my English charm, when her brass knuckled boyfriend grabbed me by the arm.
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#47. Once I'd heard 'Modern Times' by Bob Dylan, it really changed the way I wanted to make records.
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#48. Bands today have to learn their craft by putting the hard work in that we did when we were young performers.
Elton John
#49. 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.
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#50. 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.
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#51. Tina Turner gave me the highway blues.
Elton John
#52. 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.
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#53. 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
#54. 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.
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#55. I listen to Billy Joel. He is fabulous. I saw him with Elton John when they toured together, it was so great.
Marlee Matlin
#56. 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
#57. I just think you shouldn't expect people to pay money to see someone sing live and then lip-synch.
Elton John
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. This is a tremendous assest for the club, a tremendous headache lifted from our shoulders, really.
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#61. And I trusted someone to look after me on the business side of life.
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#62. You should never take more than you give
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#63. An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make.
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#64. 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
#65. If Elton John and Madonna had a baby it would be Lady Gaga.
Jon Bon Jovi
#66. 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
#67. Well, I've had my fair share in Britain of battling the tabloids.
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#68. I have no one to leave the money to. I'm a single man. I like spending my money.
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#69. 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.
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#70. 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
#71. I've only been interested in the artistic side of life.
Elton John
#72. 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
#73. The great thing about rock and roll is that someone like me can be a star.
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#74. 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
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens. I can not bear gardening, but I love gardens.
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#79. 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
#80. It's much too late to save myself from falling.
Elton John
#81. When stars collide, like you and I, no shadow blocks the sun - The One
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#82. I'll not complain about your boring life, if you just leave me to mine
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#83. Anyone who lip-synchs in public on stage when you pay 75 pounds to see them should be shot.
Elton John
#84. Rayner can't go into politics, she's got more shit on her than Elton John's cock!
Garth Ennis
#85. 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.
Elton John
#86. 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
#87. Poor cow, you'll get your dumb man. You'll see your whole life coming at you in the back of his hand.
Elton John
#88. When your persona begins to take over your music and becomes more important, you enter a dangerous place. Once you have people around you who don't question you, you're in a dangerous place.
Elton John
#89. What record companies do these days is drain the blood dry of an album, take six singles off it, and harm the longevity of artists' careers by doing it.
Elton John
#90. I hope you don't mind,
I hope you don't mind,
that I put into words,
how wonderful life is,
now you're in the world.
Elton John
#91. 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
#92. I could never go onstage in denims.
Elton John
#93. Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.
Elton John
#94. 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.
Elton John
#95. I guess that's why they call it the blues, time on my hands could be time spent with you.
Elton John
#96. Don't you know Im still standing better than I ever did. Looking like a true survivor, feeling like a little kid. I'm still standing after all this time.
Elton John
#97. He [Ryan White] had a kind of angelic aura about him. And his family, too, it's like, they are going through all this suffering, and I'm living this "Life of Riley" and I'm complaining about everything, and they are living this horrific life and complaining about nothing.
Elton John
#98. 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
#99. I have an optimistic view of everything. You have to, otherwise you'd go nuts.
Elton John
#100. 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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