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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

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Elton John
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: March 25
Composer
Film Actor
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Singer
Singer-Songwriter
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Sir Elton Hercules John
Reginald Kenneth Dwight
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I'm the Connie Francis of rock 'n' roll.
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In my 20s I was so ignorant about drugs, and so naive. I mean, my band was smoking marijuana for years I didn't even know what a joint was. And I'd never seen a line of cocaine in my life. And I don't know whether it was bravado or - OK, I'll join in. But my stupidity, I had a line of coke, and that started the whole process.
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Don't shoot me, I'm just the piano player!
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I'm the ultimate record fan. I still go out and buy records.
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Yeah. I have been with David Furnish for eight years, now.
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I've had my fills of cocaine and pills.
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I'm cold as a razor blade, inches from madness.
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I'm glad I've given up drugs and alcohol. It would be awful to be like Keith Richards. He's pathetic. It's like a monkey with arthritis, trying to go onstage and look young.
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Well, I quit those days and my redneck ways.
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Welcome to the world of bullshit, my dear. You have arrived.
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She's got electric boots, a mohair suit, you know I read it in a magazine.
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