Top 280 Elton John Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “I don’t want a Jennifer Lopez wedding or anything like that. A commitment ceremony would be a nice thing to do.”

— Elton John

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

— Elton John

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

— Elton John

104. “But actually, my drug addiction thing, I was so stubborn.”

— Elton John

105. “People with HIV are still stigmatized. The infection rates are going up. People are dying. The political response is appalling. The sadness of it, the waste.”

— Elton John

106. “You don’t know being a performer what kind of performance you’re going to give. You know you can give a certain quality of performance, but as I grow older I’m much more content in my own skin because when I come offstage, I have a balance in my life.”

— Elton John

107. “I’ll even pay sometimes for a woman that’s ugly.”

— Elton John

108. “I’ve always been dead set against festivals – really suspicious and wary.”

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109. “And I agreed with that, and I couldn’t wait to change my name anyway, because I’m not too fond of the name of Reginald. It’s a very kind of ’50s English name.”

— Elton John

110. “This is a tremendous assest for the club, a tremendous headache lifted from our shoulders, really.”

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111. “I am such a Luddite when it comes to making music. All I can do is write at the piano.”

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112. “I really appreciate my performing so much better, as I get older. I don’t take it for granted anymore. I really relish it and love it.”

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113. “I’m lucky enough and wealthy enough to be able to buy photographs and buy art that inspires me from day to day. I don’t want a Picasso on my wall; it’s great art, but it’s dead art to me. I’d rather have a photograph by someone I’ve never heard of that really inspires me.”

— Elton John

114. “And I talked to my doctor, and I must admit, you know, I’m sometimes quite renowned for my outbursts and I was just very frustrated, maybe a little frightened.”

— Elton John

115. “I’m the ultimate record fan. I still go out and buy records.”

— Elton John

116. “I have an optimistic view of everything. You have to, otherwise you’d go nuts.”

— Elton John

117. “An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make.”

— Elton John

118. “It was also great to have the Backstreet Boys appear on stage with me because I have gotten to know them all a little bit just recently, and not only are they great performers, but they also very hard working professionals and really nice guys.”

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119. “I loathe celebrity. I can’t stand it.”

— Elton John

120. “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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121. “I don’t have to compete in the charts. I can just be myself as a musician, a songwriter and play with the musicians that I really love.”

— Elton John

122. “Sometimes, you just have to step up to the plate, even if the plate is miles outside your comfort zone.”

— Elton John

123. “You can call me a fat, balding, talentless old queen who can’t sing, but you can’t tell lies about me.”

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124. “There’s really no point in asking what if? The only question worth asking is: what’s next?”

— Elton John

125. “The ugliest woman you’ll ever meet, but she’s mine and she’s ugly.”

— Elton John

126. “I’ll not complain about your boring life, if you just leave me to mine.”

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127. “Getting paid for being laid, guess that’s the name of the game.”

— Elton John

128. “Goodbye Norma Jean From the young man in the 22nd row Who sees you as something more than sexual More than just our Marilyn Monroe.”

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129. “Love is the key we must turn, truth is the flame we must burn.”

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130. “I never thought of myself as being handsome or good-looking or whatever.”

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131. “You can send yourself crazy wondering. But it all happened, and here I am. There’s really no point in asking what if? The only question worth asking is: what’s next?”

— Elton John

132. “The great thing about rock and roll is that someone like me can be a star.”

— Elton John

133. “I’m not everybody’s cup of tea. But sometimes criticism can be hurtful. Be respectful. I’m a good piano player, I can sing well, I write good songs. If you don’t like it, fair enough. But give me a break.”

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134. “And I’m afraid, in this day and age, trust, which I count so, you know, I love loyalty. I love trust.”

— Elton John

135. “I’m 57, I can’t look like a 30-year-old. You try to hold age at bay, but there comes a point when you just have to give up gracefully.”

— Elton John

136. “I’m the Connie Francis of rock ‘n’ roll.”

— Elton John

137. “I rarely wear tennis shoes. I’m 5? 8?, I hate being short.”

— Elton John

138. “I went to a mixed school and I can’t remember being bullied at school, ever. I was quite large, in those days. Usually, if you’re going to be a bully, you’ll pick on someone who is small. I didn’t bully anybody, and I don’t remember being bullied.”

— Elton John

139. “Like a candle in the wind, never knowing who to cling to until the rain set it.”

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140. “There’s times in my life when music has been an escape, the only thing that worked when everything else seemed broken, but at that moment I had nothing to escape from. I was twenty-four, successful, settled and in love.”

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141. “It was insanity, but it sounded romantic.”

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142. “We are all God’s people; we have to get along and the religious leaders have to lead the way. If they don’t do it, who else is going to do it? They’re not going to do it and it’s left to musicians or to someone else to deal with it.”

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143. “My mother encouraged me and was very great about me being gay, but she always encouraged me to follow my musical dreams, which I’m very grateful for.”

— Elton John

144. “If I was to say what I am, I’d be a Labour man. I like Tony Blair a lot, I think he’s a good man. And in America I’d definitely be a Democrat; I’d never be a Republican.”

— Elton John

145. “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.”

— Elton John

146. “Like I said, sometimes a gut feeling is the most important thing; sometimes you have to trust fate.”

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147. “Your eyes have died, but you see more than I.”

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148. “I want to do a musical movie. Like Evita, but with good music.”

— Elton John

149. “We can’t keep thinking of gay people as being ostracised; we can’t keep thinking of Muslim people as being ostracised because of the fundamentalism that occurs in Islam. Muslim people have to do something about speaking up about it. We can’t judge a book by its cover.”

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150. “I have no one to leave the money to. I’m a single man. I like spending my money.”

— Elton John