Top 280 Elton John Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.”

— Elton John

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2. “How wonderful life is while you’re in the world.”

— Elton John

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3. “You should never take more than you give.”

— Elton John

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4. “Don’t let the sun go down on me.”

— Elton John

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5. “It seems to me, sorry seems to be the hardest word.”

— Elton John

6. “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.”

— Elton John

7. “There’s a time for everyone, If they only learn, that the twisting kaleidoscope moves us all in turn.”

— Elton John

8. “All this science I don’t understand, it’s just my job five days a week.”

— Elton John

9. “Live for each second without hesitation.”

— Elton John

10. “Sweet freedom whispered in my ear, you’re a butterfly, and butterflies are free to fly, fly away, high-away, bye-bye.”

— Elton John

11. “Rocket Man, burning out his fuse up here alone.”

— Elton John

12. “Don’t shoot me, I’m just the piano player!”

— Elton John

13. “When a rumor doesn’t go away it’s not a rumor.”

— Elton John

14. “Hold me closer tiny dancer, count the headlights on the highway. Lay me down in sheets of linen, you had a busy day today.”

— Elton John

15. “The less I say the more my work gets done.”

— Elton John

16. “Better to build a bridge than a wall.”

— Elton John

17. “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

18. “Sometimes when I’m flying over the Alps I think, ‘That’s like all the cocaine I sniffed.’”

— Elton John

19. “You can cage the songbird, but you can’t make her sing. And you can trap the free bird, but you’ll have to clip her wings.”

— Elton John

20. “Don’t judge the picture by the frame, every man is not the same.”

— Elton John

21. “I love places that have an incredible history. I love the Italian way of life. I love the food. I love the people. I love the attitudes of Italians.”

— Elton John

22. “Sometimes you can’t see the wood for the trees as an artist.”

— Elton John

23. “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.”

— Elton John

24. “Don’t be afraid to let her into your heart and when your down, don’t try to carry the whole world on your shoulders.”

— Elton John

25. “If you write great songs with meaning and emotion, they will last for ever because songs are the key to everything.”

— Elton John

26. “It’s like trying to drink whisky from a bottle of wine.”

— Elton John

27. “Loneliness was tough, the toughest role you ever played. Hollywood created a superstar, and pain was the price you paid.”

— Elton John

28. “Laughing like children, living like lovers, rolling like thunder, under the covers, and I guess that’s why they call it the blues.”

— Elton John

29. “I tried to commit suicide one day. It was a very Woody Allen-type suicide. I turned on the gas and left all the windows open.”

— Elton John

30. “I guess that’s why they call it the blues, time on my hands could be time spent with you.”

— Elton John

31. “It’s very important to have two tiaras when you’re on the road; you never know when you’ll be invited to something really formal.”

— Elton John

32. “To fight the violence we must be brave, hold on strong to the love God gave.”

— Elton John

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33. “I think performers are all show-offs anyway, especially musicians. Unless you show off, you’re not going to get noticed.”

— Elton John

34. “Talk to each other. Never go to bed when you’re angry with each other. Lady Antonia Frasier who was married to Harold Pinter said they never went to bed on an argument.”

— Elton John

35. “I get high in the evening sniffing pots of glue.”

— Elton John

36. “It’s much too late to save myself from falling.”

— Elton John

37. “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.”

— Elton John

38. “No tears to damn you when jealousy burns.”

— Elton John

39. “I’m not bored with my life. I’m not just making the records and touring, I would find that boring.”

— Elton John

40. “I’ve always wanted to smash a guitar over someone’s head. You just can’t do that with a piano.”

— Elton John

41. “To forgive and be forgiven, if it’s the last thing I do, then in death’s release I may find the peace that in life I never knew.”

— Elton John

42. “Johnny, can’t you come out to play in your empty garden?”

— Elton John

43. “I’ve got that resilient thing inside me. But I wasn’t a happy bunny.”

— Elton John

44. “Someone saved my life tonight, sugar bear, you almost had your hooks in me, didn’t you dear?”

— Elton John

45. “Take me to the pilot of your soul.”

— Elton John

46. “We live in an age, in an era where there is so much negativity, there is so much violence in the world, there is so much unrest and people are at war, that I wanted to promote the word love and red signifies love.”

— Elton John

47. “People in England are so bloody nosy.”

— Elton John

48. “I’m a very wealthy man.”

— Elton John

49. “Jesus wanted us to be loving and forgiving.”

— Elton John

50. “Some kneel and lie to God.”

— Elton John