Top 280 Elton John Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “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

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

— Elton John

53. “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

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

— Elton John

55. “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

56. “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

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

— Elton John

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

— Elton John

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

— Elton John

60. “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

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

— Elton John

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

— Elton John

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

— Elton John

64. “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

65. “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

66. “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

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

— Elton John

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

— Elton John

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

— Elton John

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

— Elton John

71. “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

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

— Elton John

73. “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

74. “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

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

— Elton John

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

— Elton John

77. “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

78. “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

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

— Elton John

80. “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

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

— Elton John

82. “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

83. “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

84. “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

85. “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

86. “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

87. “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

88. “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

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

— Elton John

91. “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

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

— Elton John

93. “I don’t want a Jennifer Lopez wedding or anything like that. A commitment ceremony would be a nice thing to do.”

— Elton John

94. “Fame attracts lunatics.”

— Elton John

95. “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

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

— Elton John

97. “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

98. “Some kneel and lie to God.”

— Elton John

99. “I mean, Sting is one of my great buddies and I love him to death.”

— Elton John

100. “My mum always used to buy a record every Friday.”

— Elton John