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Elton John Inspirational Quotes (187)

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Unless you show off you're not going to get noticed.
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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.
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I had to learn how to function as a human being. And I really enjoyed that process.
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What a scandal, if I die. Yeah, I'm gonna kill myself, get a little headline news.
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I didn't really know what I was until I came to America and I had sex [for the first time] in San Francisco in 1970. It was with someone of my own sex.
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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.
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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.
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Sometimes when I’m flying over the Alps I think, 'that’s like all the cocaine I sniffed.'
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It's like trying to drink whisky from a bottle of wine.
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I have an optimistic view of everything. You have to, otherwise you'd go nuts.
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I am such a Luddite when it comes to making music. All I can do is write at the piano.
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After claws and feathers, he took skin and bone, shaped it like an hour glass and made the angels moan.
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Johnny, can't you come out to play in your empty garden?
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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.
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If you're stuck at piano and you're not a lead guitarist or a lead vocalist, you're kind of at a nine-foot plank then and you should do something about it.
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You get the same equal rights that we do when we have a civil partnership. Heterosexual people get married. We can have civil partnerships.
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Rock and roll came in and changed my life and changed the whole music scene forever, and then I grew to love R&B and Motown and all black music, gospel music. But I never dismiss any form of music. I listen to everything.
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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?
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I really don't need the public's money. I'd like to have something on the internet with charitable donation optional, where anyone can download my music for free.
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Yeah. I have been with David Furnish for eight years, now.
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It's the circle of life, and it moves us all, through despair and hope, through faith and love, 'till we find our place, on the path unwinding.
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Don't you know I”m 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.
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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.
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When stars collide, like you and I, no shadow blocks the sun - The One
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