Top 280 Elton John Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “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.”

— Elton John

152. “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.”

— Elton John

153. “That was just the mindset of the times: that happiness was somehow less important than keeping up appearances.”

— Elton John

154. “I think people should be free to engage in any sexual practices they choose; they should draw the line at goats though.”

— Elton John

155. “I’ve played pianos, I’ve jumped on pianos, I’ve fallen off pianos and I’ve pushed a piano into the crowd, hit a member of the audience with it and spent the rest of the night frantically apologizing to them.”

— Elton John

156. “The worst thing you can do to a child, and I’ve seen it happen so many times, is the silver spoon.”

— Elton John

157. “Oh teacher, I need you like a little child, you got something in you to drive a school boy wild.”

— Elton John

158. “You get the same equal rights that we do when we have a civil partnership. Heterosexual people get married. We can have civil partnerships.”

— Elton John

159. “People say, “You should write lyrics” and I say I’m quite happy not to, because I like being part of that process where you write your version of what someone else’s lyrics are saying to you, and that enjoyment has never changed.”

— Elton John

160. “I get bombed for breakfast in the morning, I get bombed for dinner.”

— Elton John

161. “I was sitting in the classroom trying to look intelligent in case the teacher looked at me.”

— Elton John

162. “I love every minute of fatherhood, staying up all night, changing nappies, kids crying, I find it really funny and inspiring. It connects you to the world in a new way.”

— Elton John

163. “This overload is edging me further out to sea, I need to put some distances between overkill and me.”

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164. “I think Jesus was a compassionate, super-intelligent gay man who understood human problems. On the cross, he forgave the people who crucified him. Jesus wanted us to be loving and forgiving. I don’t know what makes people so cruel. Try being a gay woman in the Middle East – you’re as good as dead.”

— Elton John

165. “Simon Cowell and I are great friends, and we wind each other up. Rod Stewart and I do the same thing.”

— Elton John

166. “Don’t show up around here until your social worker’s helped.”

— Elton John

167. “You can beat her, but don’t mistreat her. Oh, don’t believe that woman please.”

— Elton John

168. “Children are extremely important. They are the future of the world.”

— Elton John

169. “I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens. I can not bear gardening, but I love gardens.”

— Elton John

170. “Well, I quit those days and my redneck ways.”

— Elton John

171. “Some men kneel and pray, I like women and I like wine.”

— Elton John

172. “I was just genuinely shy. I’d always been a shy kid.”

— Elton John

173. “If there’s a God in heaven, what’s he waiting for? If He can’t hear the children, then he must see the war.”

— Elton John

174. “I have a lot of money stashed away, but I do live my life from day to day.”

— Elton John

175. “I don’t think you can recreate anything from the past. You can not do it. If you’re going to go out and imitate a Motown sound, you can’t do it, it’s impossible because of the studios and players involved and the atmosphere.”

— Elton John

176. “I don’t have a computer. I am the Luddite of rock’n’roll, I don’t have a portable phone. I write things down.”

— Elton John

177. “Once you have people around you who don’t question you, you’re in a dangerous place.”

— Elton John

178. “I was ready to approach her with my English charm, when her brass knuckled boyfriend grabbed me by the arm.”

— Elton John

179. “I’ve got a great collection of photography.”

— Elton John

180. “I don’t whistle at you down the street. I would if I could, but I can’t whistle you see.”

— Elton John

181. “Poor cow, you’ll get your dumb man. You’ll see your whole life coming at you in the back of his hand.”

— Elton John

182. “Love’s like a junkie, addiction’s a fact. Passion’s a monkey, you can’t keep off your back.”

— Elton John

183. “Well, I’m a huge fan of Ryan Adams, who’s from North Carolina. And he’s beginning to break really quite big.”

— Elton John

184. “I still want to play music but I don’t want to look like Donald Duck while I’m doing it.”

— Elton John

185. “I couldn’t strut around like Mick Jagger, or smash my instrument up like Jimi Hendrix or Pete Townshend: bitter subsequent experience has taught me that if you get carried away and try and smash up a piano by pushing it offstage, you end up looking less like a lawless rock god and more like a furniture removal man having a bad day.”

— Elton John

186. “I’ve only been interested in the artistic side of life.”

— Elton John

187. “I tour as many countries as possible, and I’ve toured every state in America, plus every province in Canada.”

— Elton John

188. “It was Elvis that got me interested in music. I’ve been an Elvis fan since I was a kid.”

— Elton John

189. “He’s been dead for so many years, but I’m still trying to impress him. That’s what gave me my drive. ‘Look at me, Dad, I’ve succeeded.’”

— Elton John

190. “But you know, I have a pretty good relationship with the press and the paparazzi. It’s just when they step over the line that, you know, enough’s enough.”

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191. “I just go into the studio, look at the lyrics for the first time when I put them on the piano, and go. If I haven’t got it within 40 minutes, I give up. It’s never changed, the thrill has never gone, because I don’t know what I’m going to get next.”

— Elton John

192. “Once I’d heard ‘Modern Times’ by Bob Dylan, it really changed the way I wanted to make records.”

— Elton John

193. “I grew up conservative because my mum was a conservative, and when I finally realized what conservatives were, I changed my mind immediately.”

— Elton John

194. “I heard Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis, and that was it. I didn’t ever want to be anything else. I just started banging away and semi-studied classical music at the Royal Academy of Music but sort of half-heartedly.”

— Elton John

195. “Ever since I had that interview in which I said I was bisexual it seems twice as many people wave at me in the streets.”

— Elton John

196. “Who really needs a new album from me?”

— Elton John

197. “Anyone who lip-synchs in public on stage when you pay 75 pounds to see them should be shot.”

— Elton John

198. “Chefs aren’t celebrities: they’re chefs.”

— Elton John

199. “There’s a lot of hate in the world.”

— Elton John

200. “I never really made a full album in Los Angeles before.”

— Elton John