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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
Composer
Film Actor
Guitarist
Hiv Activist
Pianist
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Reg Dwight
Sir Elton Hercules John
Reginald Kenneth Dwight
Rock
Rocks
Connie
Francis
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The great thing about rock and roll is that someone like me can be a star.
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Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.
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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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What we should be doing as musicians is trying to bring people together.
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It's the circle of life, and it moves us all, through despair and hope, through faith and love, 'till we find our place, on the path unwinding.
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Make this man a saint now, OK?
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The world is near escalating to World War Three and where are the leaders of each religion? Why aren't they having a conclave why aren't they coming together?
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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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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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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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Sometimes when I’m flying over the Alps I think, 'that’s like all the cocaine I sniffed.'
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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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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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Instead of more violence why isn't there a [meeting of religious leaders]. It's all got to be dialogue - that's the only way. Get everybody from each religion together and say 'Listen, this can't go on. Why do we have all this hatred?'
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Your eyes have died, but you see more than I.
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I really appreciate my performing so much better, as I get older. I don't take it for granted anymore. I really relish it and love it.
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Well, as I was saying... everyone's so nice to me, usually.
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Tina Turner gave me the highway blues.
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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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But you know, I have a pretty good relationship with the press and the paparazzi. It's just when they step over the line that, you know, enough's enough.
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