Top 280 Elton John Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “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.”

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

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

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

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

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106. “As a child, as a teenager, I was kind of not allowed to wear fashionable clothes.”

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107. “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.”

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

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109. “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.”

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110. “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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111. “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.”

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

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113. “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.”

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

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

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

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

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120. “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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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129. “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?”

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

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

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

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134. “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.”

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

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

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137. “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.”

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138. “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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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145. “Religion promotes the hatred and spite against gays. From my point of view, I would ban religion completely. Organised religion doesn’t seem to work. It turns people into really hateful lemmings and it’s not really compassionate.”

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146. “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.”

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147. “I knew about AIDS. My friends were dying right, left, and center. I did a record with Dionne Warwick, Stevie Wonder, and Gladys Knight. I did a couple of benefits.”

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

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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. “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.”

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