Taupin's 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. I obtained not the least thing from unexcelled, complete awakening, and for this very reason it is called unexcelled, complete awakening.

Alan W. Watts

#3. I don't think England is that gray but India is like a long drone.

Ray Davies

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

Bernie Taupin

#5. I assume that, as usual, he is asking this question rhetorically, so I say nothing so he'll go on ranting, because as painful as it is for me to admit, there is something kind of wonderful about Tiny's ranting, particularly on a quiet street when I am still half asleep.

John Green

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. Local churches are ten times more segregated than the neighborhoods they are in and they are twenty times more segregated than the schools than the nearby schools.

Derwin L. Gray

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

Bernie Taupin

#10. 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

#11. The intellect,-that is miraculous! Who has it, has the talisman: his skin and bones, though they were of the color of night, are transparent, and the everlasting stars shine through, with attractive beams.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#12. Even back in its colonial days, America developed a reputation as a safe harbor for people with unusual or radical religious beliefs.

Mitch Horowitz

#13. The moment you stop chasing happiness, you become happy.

Sandy Hyatt-James

#14. You have to pick the stories that you want to be involved with and the end game is you'd like to be a part of a hit. But I think your moral obligation is to follow your own heart.

Kevin Costner

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

Bernie Taupin

#16. 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

#17. Be respectful of words. They mean something.

Katherine Anne Porter

#18. One time you smash a bug with no mercy. Another time you find one helpless on his back with his legs flailing the air, and you flip him over and let him go on his way. The struggle that touches the heart.

Charles Portis

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

Bernie Taupin

#20. Every second of your definitionally temporary consciousness, you are choosing how you spend something that will not last forever.

John Green

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

Bernie Taupin

#22. The story of Acts, even after Jesus's ascension, is about what Jesus continued to do and teach. And the way he did it and taught it was - through his followers.

N. T. Wright

#23. You know that old joke about the guy who lives to be 104? The punch line goes something like 'If I knew I was gonna get this old, I'd have taken much better care of myself.' Well, guess what? We actually are living longer, and the time to start taking care of ourselves is right this minute.

Oprah Winfrey

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. At both school and at home, I lost myself in books.

Daniel D. Maurer

#28. 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

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

Bernie Taupin

#30. I work for wardrobe. Whenever I need clothes, I take a job. If I get maybe like six changes, then I'll be a grandmother, I don't care.

Suzanne Pleshette

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

Bernie Taupin