Top 280 Elton John Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “As a child, as a teenager, I was kind of not allowed to wear fashionable clothes.”

— Elton John

52. “I cannot bear successful people who are miserable.”

— Elton John

53. “I’m a juvenile product of the working class, who’s best friend floats in the bottom of a glass.”

— Elton John

54. “A couple of sounds that I really like are the sounds of a switchblade and a motor bike.”

— Elton John

55. “My old man is drunker than a barrel full of monkeys, but my old lady she don’t care.”

— Elton John

56. “Mars ain’t the kind of place to raise your kids, in fact it’s cold as hell.”

— Elton John

57. “I do like my rock stars to be a little larger than life. I don’t mind the earnest ones at all, but I do like a bit of individuality.”

— Elton John

58. “If there is a better singer in England than Craig David, then I am Margaret Thatcher.”

— Elton John

59. “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

60. “I’d walk a million miles to give her what she needs. But she would walk a million more to do what she believes.”

— Elton John

61. “Tina Turner gave me the highway blues.”

— Elton John

62. “I’m glad I’ve given up drugs and alcohol. It would be awful to be like Keith Richards. He’s pathetic. It’s like a monkey with arthritis, trying to go onstage and look young.”

— Elton John

63. “Drunk all the time, feeling fine on elderberry wine.”

— Elton John

64. “I love people who expect me to wear great, feathery costumes- and I do it. It’s like an actor getting into his costume for his part. I don’t really feel that part until I’m into whatever I’m going to wear.”

— Elton John

65. “The work became like the drug addiction, the clothes, anything in my life. It became – it’s become an addiction. I’m addicted to working.”

— Elton John

66. “I had a little Richard and that black piano, oh that sweet Georgia Peach, and the boy form Tupelo.”

— Elton John

67. “There ain’t been no angels in heaven around since God invented girls.”

— Elton John

68. “She’s got electric boots, a mohair suit, you know I read it in a magazine.”

— Elton John

69. “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.”

— Elton John

70. “He’d been drinking in a bar downtown, when he thought he heard a choir of angels singing in the Tiki Lounge. And that’s when he got religion.”

— Elton John

71. “I just think you shouldn’t expect people to pay money to see someone sing live and then lip-synch.”

— Elton John

72. “I want a love that don’t mean a thing.”

— Elton John

73. “Top dog, top hat, move that muscle, move that fat.”

— Elton John

74. “I love football, but I’m sick of the World Cup. I don’t even care about England.”

— Elton John

75. “Bands today have to learn their craft by putting the hard work in that we did when we were young performers.”

— Elton John

76. “Nothing should be an issue when it comes to sexuality in the first place. Music is the one artform where people feel comfortable coming out.”

— Elton John

77. “Shock waves to a tired brain, sends that hungry lady to my door again. She’s my shelter from the storm when I feel the rain, entertaining white powder.”

— Elton John

78. “Lawdy Mama, those Friday nights when Suzy wore her dresses down tight.”

— Elton John

79. “On Keith Richards: He’s like a monkey with arthritis.”

— Elton John

80. “On a street of right and wrong in every inch of sadness, rocks and tanks go hand in hand with madness.”

— Elton John

81. “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

82. “It’s so easy to write songs about misery and hard times and sadness. It’s much more difficult to write songs about happy and chirpy stuff.”

— Elton John

83. “After claws and feathers, he took skin and bone, shaped it like an hour glass and made the angels moan.”

— Elton John

84. “I love drag queens and I love going to see them perform because those people have got so much character and bravery. Such balls! I love people with balls.”

— Elton John

85. “I wasn’t involved in anything. I wasn’t out – you know, I know I wasn’t in ACT UP. I wasn’t with Larry Kramer. I wasn’t by his side. I wasn’t saying what I should do, because, by all accounts, I was a drug addict and an alcoholic. And I was living in a complete bubble of self-absorption.”

— Elton John

86. “And it’s one more beer and I don’t hear you any more.”

— Elton John

87. “I’ve always enjoyed and loved playing live. I relish and cherish it more than anything else because you never know what the performance is going to be.”

— Elton John

88. “I’m very relaxed. I have a family, I have a partner of 20 years, I have a wonderful life; nothing could be better.”

— Elton John

89. “Ask anyone. If it hadn’t been for Elvis, I don’t know where popular music would be. He was the one that started it all off, and he was definitely the start of it for me.”

— Elton John

90. “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.”

— Elton John

91. “I’m addicted to working. I mean, I have a list of 100 countries I want to play in. I’m basically killing myself by travelling so much, for no reason whatsoever.”

— Elton John

92. “We were both very much the same. We were both very impulsive. We both loved life. We both loved shopping. We both had a love of clothes, obviously, because he was the designer that I kind of wore forever and ever.”

— Elton John

93. “Fame attracts lunatics.”

— Elton John

94. “I hate to say this, but I always listen to the music and the instrumentation first, and then grab on to the lyrics later.”

— Elton John

95. “There is such a thing as good interference from your record label. I don’t think I get enough interference from my record label.”

— Elton John

96. “What a scandal, if I die. Yeah, I’m gonna kill myself, get a little headline news.”

— Elton John

97. “I like Stevie Wonder. I usually wind up playing the same old tapes in the car.”

— Elton John

98. “I’ve watched other people singing, I’ve become a much better singer. I’ve become a singer that plays the piano instead of a piano player that sings.”

— Elton John

99. “I spent the last week of Ryan’s life in Indiana, Indianapolis, with Jeanne and Andrea, Jeanne, his mother, Andrea, his sister, and some other beautiful people who came. And it taught me a lesson.”

— Elton John

100. “I’m so proud to be on a Kate Bush record; she’s always marched to the beat of her own drum.”

— Elton John