Taupin Quotes

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

Bernie Taupin

#2. Instead of preparing to die, prepare to live in the midst of all the exaltations of the Gods

Brigham Young

#3. Everyone has their own New York in the heart, place where there is hope for everybody.

T.A

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

Bernie Taupin

#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.

Bernie Taupin

#6. The greater the risk, the sweeter the fruit.

Pierre Corneille

#7. O thou who art the sparrow's friend," he said, "have mercy on this world that knows not even when it sins. O holy dove, descend and roost on Godric here so that a heart may hatch in him at last. Amen

Frederick Buechner

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. Once upon a time, they thought I was a sweet, wide-eyed boy that was just trying to figure out how to kiss the girl. Lots of comic relief and adolescent yearnings.

Ben Mendelsohn

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. Your self-image is as ephemeral as the play of light dancing on the surface of the water.

Mooji

#14. The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet.

Shunryu Suzuki

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

Bernie Taupin

#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. The idea of equal rights was in the air.

Lucy Stone

#18. 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

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

Bernie Taupin

#20. About every four years, someone says to me, 'I've got a friend who looks exactly like you.' What can you say to this?

Arthur Smith

#21. Who has the right to decide that the supreme value is a world without insects even though it would be a sterile world ungraced by the curving wing of a bird in flight. The decision is that of the authoritarian temporarily entrusted with power.

Rachel Carson

#22. I think Stella Tennant is amazing. And then I really loved all those '60s society models, like Edie Sedgwick.

Edie Campbell

#23. I have begun writing what I have said I'd never write, a memoir ("I am not my own subject," I used to say with icy superiority).

Gore Vidal

#24. 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

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

Bernie Taupin

#26. 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

#27. If a brand wants to build social communities, capital and influence, it must become the chief celebrant of its community, not its celebrity. This simple shift in approach unlocks enormous transformative potential for brands.

Simon Mainwaring

#28. 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

#29. The abstraction, ostensibly, is simply for me the penetration of something that is more profound in many ways than rigidity of a form. A form if it breathes some, if it has some enigma to it, it is also the enigma that is the abstract, I would think.

Beauford Delaney

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

Bernie Taupin