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Elton John Inspirational Quotes (187)

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The French are useless. They can't organize a piss-up in a brewery.
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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.
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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!
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I've always enjoyed and loved playing live. I relish and cherish it more than anything else because you never know what the performance is going to be.
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The Backstreet Boys can sing their asses off. I'm not so sure about those other boy bands. But Backstreet Boys have my ultimate respect.
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To fight the violence we must be brave, hold on strong to the love God gave.
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George W. Bush was passionate about AIDS. And we had a 10-minute talk at the interval of a concert at the Kennedy Center about AIDS. And I was astonished about how well-informed he was and his commitment to AIDS. And so it's the typical thing of don't judge a book by its cover until you have read the book.
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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.
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Make this man a saint now, OK?
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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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You can cage the songbird, but you can't make her sing. And you can trap the free bird, but you'll have to clip her wings.
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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.
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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.
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And there are men behind bars who pray for the light and there are men in the suburbs who pray for the night.
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I am totally against the war but violence is part of mankind and it's going to happen, but as musicians I think we've got to step up and say 'come on'.
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It was Elvis that got me interested in music. I've been an Elvis fan since I was a kid.
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It was also great to have the Backstreet Boys appear on stage with me because I have gotten to know them all a little bit just recently, and not only are they great performers, but they also very hard working professionals and really nice guys.
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There's a time for everyone, If they only learn, that the twisting kaleidoscope moves us all in turn.
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Your eyes have died, but you see more than I.
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And I'm afraid, in this day and age, trust, which I count so, you know, I love loyalty. I love trust.
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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.
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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 [Lady] Gaga or I was on All of the Lights, which was a Kanye West record that managed to get on the radio.
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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.
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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.
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