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Anyone who lip-synchs in public on stage when you pay 75 pounds to see them should be shot.

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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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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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 think performers are all show-offs anyway, especially musicians. Unless you show off, you're not going to get noticed.
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I can't think of anything until I've got printed words in front of me. I never wake up in the middle of the night with a song in my head.
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I grew up at my grandmother's house, and she had a beautiful garden. I used to hate mowing the lawn and weeding, which is what you do when you're a kid. I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens.
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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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And it's one more beer and I don't hear you any more.
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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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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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The French are useless. They can't organize a piss-up in a brewery.
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I've always been a fan, so my enthusiasm has always been great, but it's never going to be the same as it was from 1970 to 1975. You cannot repeat that, but you can get inspired by searching, by being mystified.
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Unless you show off you're not going to get noticed.
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I do work a lot. I mean, most of my income, I would say, comes from live performances. And then you've got publishing, you've got record royalties.
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The Backstreet Boys can sing their asses off. I'm not so sure about those other boy bands. But Backstreet Boys have my ultimate respect.
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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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Holy Moses, let us live in peace. Let us strive to find a way to make all hatred cease. There's a man over there, what's his colour I don't care, he's my brother, let us live in peace.
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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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Simon Cowell and I are great friends and we wind each other up. Rod Stewart and I do the same thing.
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It's like trying to drink whisky from a bottle of wine.
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I've had my fills of cocaine and pills.
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