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Ask anyone. If it hadn't been for Elvis, I don't know where popular music would be. He was the one that started it all off, and he was definitely the start of it for me.

Elton John

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Elton John
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: March 25
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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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I've dodged so many bullets. Not just because of unsafe sex, but because of the amount of drugs I did, the amount of alcohol, the amount of work I was doing. I started the Elton John AIDS Foundation because I got so lucky.
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In the '50s you weren't taught about sex whatsoever. It was never just talked about. People used to snoop behind their curtains and look at the neighbors. And if a girl became pregnant in your part of the world, she was shipped off to the countryside.
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I've been following him since Space Oddity. And I've followed him from all those albums that didn't sell, like The Man Who Sold The World and things like that. Above all, apart from all the glamorous rubbish, the music's there. Ziggy Stardust is a classic album.
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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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If there's a God in heaven, what's he waiting for? If He can't hear the children, then he must see the war.
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...I'm so over the tattoos and the T-shirts and rings through the noses. It's not pretty, it's not pleasant, it's not exciting. Please stop it now.
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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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It was Elvis that got me interested in music. I've been an Elvis fan since I was a kid.
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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.
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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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Sometimes you can't see the wood for the trees as an artist.
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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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To forgive and be forgiven, if it's the last thing I do, then in death's release I may find the peace that in life I never knew.
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You should never take more than you give
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I'll even pay sometimes for a woman that's ugly.
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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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What record companies do these days is drain the blood dry of an album, take six singles off it, and harm the longevity of artists' careers by doing it.
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