Quotes by Elton John - Page 2

I saw you dancing out the ocean Running fast along the sand A spirit born of earth and water Fire flying from your hands
Elton John / Singer-Songwriter
Ocean
Running
Fire
Song
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I think performers are all show-offs anyway, especially musicians. Unless you show off, you're not going to get noticed.
Elton John / Singer-Songwriter
Performers
Anyway
Musicians
Noticed
Show Off
Unless
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I hate to say this, but I always listen to the music and the instrumentation first, and then grab on to the lyrics later.
Elton John / Singer-Songwriter
Instrumentation
Grab
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I've had an amazing professional life, personal life, but at 64 to have a son who gives us that much love and enjoyment is, wow!
Elton John / Singer-Songwriter
Enjoyment
Personal Life
Professional Life
Life Love Amazing
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Jealous
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I do like my rock stars to be a little larger than life. I don't mind the earnest ones at all, but I do like a bit of individuality.
Elton John / Singer-Songwriter
Earnest
Individuality
Stars
Rock Stars
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Having Children
Relaxed
Love Hate Me
Crying
Screaming
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I don't have to compete in the charts. I can just be myself as a musician, a songwriter and play with the musicians that I really love.
Elton John / Singer-Songwriter
Musician
Charts
Compete
Just Be
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I grew up conservative because my mum was a conservative, and when I finally realized what conservatives were, I changed my mind immediately.
Elton John / Singer-Songwriter
Conservative
Mum
Conservatives
Finally
Immediately
Realized
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I do work a lot. I mean, most of my income, I would say, comes from live performances. And then you've got publishing, you've got record royalties.
Elton John / Singer-Songwriter
Income
Publishing
Royalties
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I love places that have an incredible history. I love the Italian way of life. I love the food. I love the people. I love the attitudes of Italians.
Elton John / Singer-Songwriter
History
Italian
Life Love Food
Life Love History
Attitudes
Incredible
Italians
Places
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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.
Elton John / Singer-Songwriter
Garden
Grandmother
Lawn
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Good Relationship
Paparazzi
Press
Pretty Good
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I love drag queens and I love going to see them perform because those people have got so much character and bravery. Such balls! I love people with balls.
Elton John / Singer-Songwriter
Queens
Bravery
Character
People
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And there's no guarantee that if you get HIV and you take these triple therapies, or whatever comes along next, that they're going to be successful for you.
Elton John / Singer-Songwriter
Hiv
Guarantee
No Guarantee
Triple
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People with HIV are still stigmatized. The infection rates are going up. People are dying. The political response is appalling. The sadness of it, the waste.
Elton John / Singer-Songwriter
Dying
Hiv
Infection
Political
Response
Sadness
Waste
Appalling
Rates
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And I agreed with that, and I couldn't wait to change my name anyway, because I'm not too fond of the name of Reginald. It's a very kind of '50s English name.
Elton John / Singer-Songwriter
Agreed
Anyway
Fond
Wait
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And I talked to my doctor, and I must admit, you know, I'm sometimes quite renowned for my outbursts and I was just very frustrated, maybe a little frightened.
Elton John / Singer-Songwriter
Frightened
Frustrated
Outburst
Renowned
Admit
Doctor
Talked
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I'm addicted to working. I mean, I have a list of 100 countries I want to play in. I'm basically killing myself by travelling so much, for no reason whatsoever.
Elton John / Singer-Songwriter
No Reason
List
Travelling
Whatsoever
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For me, music is so passionate, I have to give it my all every time I go onstage. Onstage, it was always comfortable for me, because that's where I felt at home.
Elton John / Singer-Songwriter
Comfortable
Passionate
Time Home Music
Every Time
Onstage
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It's just so wonderful to have someone in the house like a child to turn your attention to. It's not about you anymore, it's about this lovely little human being.
Elton John / Singer-Songwriter
Lovely
Human Being
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Cute
Smile
Fun
Records
Snob
Spears
Thinking
Britney
Britney Spears
Her
Makes
Pop
She
Whatsoever
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Because, I figured that, because I was a successful man, I was wealthy, I was, you know, seemingly intelligent - even that I am not intelligent enough to ask for help.
Elton John / Singer-Songwriter
Intelligent
Successful
Successful Man
Wealthy
Ask
Enough Man I Am
Figured
Help
Seemingly
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I love every minute of fatherhood, staying up all night, changing nappies, kids crying, I find it really funny and inspiring. It connects you to the world in a new way.
Elton John / Singer-Songwriter
Inspiring
Kids
Dad
All Night
Fatherhood
Night
Staying
Connects
Crying
Minute
New Way
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Blair
Democrat
Good Man
Labour
Good Man I Am
Tony
Tony Blair
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I mean, in some cases with libel laws, you know, they can write things about people who have no course of action, because they can't afford to take legal action against them.
Elton John / Singer-Songwriter
Legal
Cases
Libel
Afford
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Backwards
Flying
Vegas
Weeks
Forwards
Helps
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I've never had a writer's block, but still I think: 'Is it going to happen this time?' You never know what you're going to get; you just put your fingers on the keys and hope.
Elton John / Singer-Songwriter
Block
Fingers
Time Hope Your
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At heart I've always been a music fan. That part of me has never changed since I was a little kid, sitting in a room watching a record go round, looking at the colour of the labels.
Elton John / Singer-Songwriter
Kids
Colour
Fans
Heart
Labels
Little Kid
Sitting
Music Heart Me
Music Heart Always
Round
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I grew up conservative because my mum was a conservative, and when I finally realized what conservatives were, I changed my mind immediately. As children, we tend to copy our parents.
Elton John / Singer-Songwriter
Changed
Conservative
Grew
Mum
Conservatives
Copy
Finally
Parents
Immediately
Realized
Tend
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Dangerous
Persona
Music Your Important
Becomes
Begins
Dangerous Place
Enter
Music People Important
Question
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Artist
Emotion
Good Great Will
Great Songs
Last
Meaning
Outlast
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I'm a great lover of children. I never thought that one day I'd actually be a father, but I'm very pleased that I changed my mind. Children are extremely important. They are the future of the world.
Elton John / Singer-Songwriter
Future
Changed
One Day
Actually
Lover
Extremely
Pleased
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Respect
Break
Criticism
Enough
Give Me
Hurtful
Piano
Player
Respectful
Tea
Good Enough Me
Everybody
Good Respect Me
Songs
Write
Cup
Fair
Give
Well
Piano Player
Sing
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Attractive
Dwight
Enough Never Know
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We live in an age, in an era where there is so much negativity, there is so much violence in the world, there is so much unrest and people are at war, that I wanted to promote the word love and red signifies love.
Elton John / Singer-Songwriter
Love
Smile
Age
War
Negativity
People
Red
Unrest
Violence
Wanted
World
Live
Much
Era
Word
Promote
Where
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We were both very much the same. We were both very impulsive. We both loved life. We both loved shopping. We both had a love of clothes, obviously, because he was the designer that I kind of wore forever and ever.
Elton John / Singer-Songwriter
Clothes
Designer
Forever
Impulsive
Shopping
Very
Had
Much
Both
Same
Loved
Ever
Obviously
Wore
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The whole point of being in this business and being blessed and being successful is that you're able to do things for your friends or your family, which means that they can have something special in their lives, too.
Elton John / Singer-Songwriter
Being Blessed
Blessed
Something Special
Special
Successful
Family Business Your
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I heard Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis, and that was it. I didn't ever want to be anything else. I just started banging away and semi-studied classical music at the Royal Academy of Music but sort of half-heartedly.
Elton John / Singer-Songwriter
Academy
Banging
Classical Music
Heard
Jerry
Royal
Anything Else
Classical
Richard
Lee
Lewis
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Kids
Beautiful
Garden
Grandmother
Hate
Loathe
Weed
Lawn
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Britain
Catching
Danger
Educated
Frightening
Hiv
Seeing
Rise
Amongst
As Far As
Happening
Gay Country People
Heterosexual
Incredibly
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When I say I don't have to write pop songs anymore, there's no way I'm going to get on the radio at 60 years of age unless I'm doing a duet with Gaga or I was on 'All of the Lights,' which was a Kanye West record that managed to get on the radio.
Elton John / Singer-Songwriter
Gaga
Radio
West
Anymore
Duet
Lights
Pop Songs
Unless
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I went to a mixed school and I can't remember being bullied at school, ever. I was quite large, in those days. Usually, if you're going to be a bully, you'll pick on someone who is small. I didn't bully anybody, and I don't remember being bullied.
Elton John / Singer-Songwriter
Bullied
Bully
Remember
School
Quite
Anybody
Days
Small
Large
Mixed
Pick
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I just go into the studio, look at the lyrics for the first time when I put them on the piano, and go. If I haven't got it within 40 minutes, I give up. It's never changed, the thrill has never gone, because I don't know what I'm going to get next.
Elton John / Singer-Songwriter
Thrill
Time Look First Time
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The great thing about small children is they're portable, so we take them everywhere, but when it comes to 2015, Zachary's going to school, and I want to be there to drop him off and pick him up. I don't want to just be the father who reads them a bedtime story.
Elton John / Singer-Songwriter
Bedtime
Drop
Great Thing
Just Be
Portable
Reads
Small Children
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When Little Richard used to stand up and play it was just fabulous, and Liberace had the candlesticks and the rings and the gift of the gab. The piano's is the most ungainly rock' n' roll instrument of all time but those two people transcended it, as did Jerry Lee Lewis.
Elton John / Singer-Songwriter
Fabulous
Jerry
Rings
Used
Stand
Time People Stand
Gift
Richard
Instrument
Lee
Lewis
Rock
Stand Up
Two People
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I'm lucky enough and wealthy enough to be able to buy photographs and buy art that inspires me from day to day. I don't want a Picasso on my wall; it's great art, but it's dead art to me. I'd rather have a photograph by someone I've never heard of that really inspires me.
Elton John / Singer-Songwriter
Great Art
Heard
Lucky
Photograph
Wall
Wealthy
Art Great Me
Dead
Inspires
Picasso
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I love the idea of the teachings of Jesus Christ and the beautiful stories about it, which I loved in Sunday school and I collected all the little stickers and put them in my book. But the reality is that organised religion doesn't seem to work. It turns people into hateful lemmings and it's not really compassionate.
Elton John / Singer-Songwriter
Jesus
Religion
Book
Christ
Compassionate
Hateful
Jesus Christ
Organised
Reality
School
Stories
Sunday
Sunday School
Turns
Love Work Beautiful
Little
Loved
Idea
Collected
Put
Seem
Teachings
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