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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
Guitarist
Hiv Activist
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Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Reg Dwight
Sir Elton Hercules John
Reginald Kenneth Dwight
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I've been coming to America since 1970, and it's like my second home, but I've never felt such a divided country, ever. I didn't think it would get to this point, and it breaks my heart.
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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 think performers are all show-offs anyway, especially musicians. Unless you show off, you're not going to get noticed.
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It's very important to have two tiaras when you're on the road. You never know when you'll be invited to something really formal.
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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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As a child, as a teenager, I was kind of not allowed to wear fashionable clothes.
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I have no one to leave the money to. I'm a single man. I like spending my money.
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I'm 57, I can't look like a 30-year-old. You try to hold age at bay, but there comes a point when you just have to give up gracefully.
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Oh teacher, I need you like a little child, you got something in you to drive a school boy wild.
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Basically, I wanted redemption for the way I lived my life beforehand, and that was the drugs, the drink, the loose sex, whatever.
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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've only been interested in the artistic side of life.
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Don't judge the picture by the frame, every man is not the same
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I want a love that don't mean a thing.
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I have an optimistic view of everything. You have to, otherwise you'd go nuts.
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Sometimes you can't see the wood for the trees as an artist.
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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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Better to build a bridge than a wall.
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I love to work. It fascinates me. And I love seeing who's coming up, who's got the charisma to last, who's got the intelligence to move on to other things. I'm so glad now that I'm stuck behind the piano, because when you're getting older it's very hard to waddle around the stage.
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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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