Quote

I get upset when people knock hip-hop, because I can absolutely see the musicality in it. These days, when I'm listening to records by hip-hop artists, I hear the production. It's just astounding how great the productions have become.

Elton John

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

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
Great
Artists
People
Absolutely
Listening
Musicality
Records
Astounding
Hear
Knock
Days
Production
Artist
Productions
Become
Upset

More quotes by Elton John

Image
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.
Elton John
Image
Don't you know I”m still standing better than I ever did. Looking like a true survivor, feeling like a little kid. I'm still standing after all this time.
Elton John
Image
I had a little Richard and that black piano, oh that sweet Georgia Peach, and the boy form Tupelo.
Elton John
Image
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.
Elton John
Image
And I'm afraid, in this day and age, trust, which I count so, you know, I love loyalty. I love trust.
Elton John
Image
Johnny, can't you come out to play in your empty garden?
Elton John
Image
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.
Elton John
Image
Well, I quit those days and my redneck ways.
Elton John
Image
And there are men behind bars who pray for the light and there are men in the suburbs who pray for the night.
Elton John
Image
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.
Elton John
Image
I tour as many countries as possible, and I've toured every state in America, plus every province in Canada.
Elton John
Image
Don't show up around here until your social worker's helped.
Elton John
Image
There is nothing wrong with going to bed with someone of your own sex. People should be very free with sex, they should draw the line at goats.
Elton John
Image
Anyone who lip-synchs in public on stage when you pay 75 pounds to see them should be shot.
Elton John
Image
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.
Elton John
Image
I didn't have sex until I was 23 and that was with a man. I made up for lost time after that in a hurry. I wish I could have had sex when I was, like, 14, 15 or 16 because that's such an exciting age to have sex.
Elton John
Image
Chefs aren't celebrities: they're chefs.
Elton John
Image
I'm the ultimate record fan. I still go out and buy records.
Elton John
Image
Blue jean baby, LA lady, seamstress for the band. Pretty eyed, pirate smile, you'll marry a music man. Ballerina, you must have seen her dancing in the sand.
Elton John
Image
Well, as I was saying... everyone's so nice to me, usually.
Elton John