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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.

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
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People with HIV are still stigmatized. The infection rates are going up. People are dying. The political response is appalling. The sadness of it, the waste.
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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 Little Richard used to stand up and play it was just fabulous, and Liberace had the candlesticks and the rings and the gift of the gab. The piano's is the most ungainly rock' n' roll instrument of all time but those two people transcended it, as did Jerry Lee Lewis.
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You get the same equal rights that we do when we have a civil partnership. Heterosexual people get married. We can have civil partnerships.
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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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To fight the violence we must be brave, hold on strong to the love God gave.
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I'm going to fight for human rights, whether I do it silently behind the scenes or vocally so that I get locked up. I can't just sit back it's not in my nature. I can't sit back and blindly ignore it, and I won't.
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I'm still as fascinated with the music business as ever. I'd love to do an electronic album like Prodigy or Underworld. I really like that sort of music.
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I had progressed on stage as a performer, but I hadn't progressed as a human being.
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Everything I thought I'd hate about having children - the crying, the screaming - nothing fazes me. I love it all and it's relaxed me.
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I'm a very wealthy man.
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I heard Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis, and that was it. I didn't ever want to be anything else. I just started banging away and semi-studied classical music at the Royal Academy of Music but sort of half-heartedly.
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And I trusted someone to look after me on the business side of life.
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I grew up conservative because my mum was a conservative, and when I finally realized what conservatives were, I changed my mind immediately.
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Anyone who lip-synchs in public on stage when you pay 75 pounds to see them should be shot.
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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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