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I'm the Connie Francis of rock 'n' roll.
Elton John
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Elton John
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: March 25
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Film Actor
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Hiv Activist
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Singer-Songwriter
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Sir Elton Hercules John
Reginald Kenneth Dwight
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A great editor is the most valuable thing you can have as an artist because, as you said, sometimes you get too close to something. I think, apart from your talent, that's why you have the career you have - because you have great people behind you.
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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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It's getting late have you seen my mates, Ma tell me when the boys get here, It's seven o'clock and I want to rock, Want to get a belly full of beer...
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I love people who expect me to wear great, feathery costumes- and I do it. It's like an actor getting into his costume for his part. I don't really feel that part until I'm into whatever I'm going to wear.
Elton John
I like Stevie Wonder. I usually wind up playing the same old tapes in the car.
Elton John
I'm lucky enough and wealthy enough to be able to buy photographs and buy art that inspires me from day to day. I don't want a Picasso on my wall it's great art, but it's dead art to me. I'd rather have a photograph by someone I've never heard of that really inspires me.
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A couple of sounds that I really like are the sounds of a switchblade and a motor bike.
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And we have come so far like that. I mean, the advances on the medication side have been enormous, and the advances on the human side have been enormous. But we still have this stigma to get rid of, and then we really will be able to see the light at the end of the tunnel.
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I have a much better relationship with the press than I did, I think because I stood my ground.
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Getting paid for being laid, guess that's the name of the game.
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I don't want a Jennifer Lopez wedding or anything like that. A commitment ceremony would be a nice thing to do.
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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 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.
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I don't whistle at you down the street. I would if I could, but I can't whistle you see.
Elton John
I had a little Richard and that black piano, oh that sweet Georgia Peach, and the boy form Tupelo.
Elton John
I can't talk about - as eloquently as everyone else about a prevention or medicine or, you know, funding, but I can talk about the human element, which is the main part of AIDS, because it comes to the human being and how they are being treated, what medicines they are on and what medicines they are not on.
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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.
Elton John
You know, it's a very treatable disease. You shouldn't feel ashamed. But I'm afraid that's carried on very much so from the first days of AIDS, when it was basically a gay disease. And then, of course, you know, it affected everybody.
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I've had my fills of cocaine and pills.
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They're [[harmaceuticals companies] just making a killing out of people's death. And they're benefiting by people's suffering. And I find that obscene. I find it ridiculous in this day and age, that that would happen. And it took President Clinton to go to rogue pharmaceutical companies to copy the antiretroviral drugs for a fraction of the cost.
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