Top 280 Elton John Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “The whole point of being in this business and being blessed and being successful is that you’re able to do things for your friends or your family, which means that they can have something special in their lives, too.”

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202. “When I say I don’t have to write pop songs anymore, there’s no way I’m going to get on the radio at 60 years of age unless I’m doing a duet with Gaga or I was on ‘All of the Lights,’ which was a Kanye West record that managed to get on the radio.”

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203. “I’m cold as a razor blade, inches from madness.”

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204. “We have come so far. It’s become a real bipartisan cause, which I’m very happy to see. And in the case of America, and it’s – certainly, without America, we’d be facing catastrophe.”

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205. “I used to get my money at the end of the week, buy my mum something, or buy a record, and that was it.”

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206. “Having obviously forgiven me for the incident on the Starship, Stevie Wonder turned up one day and took out a snowmobile, insisting on driving it himself. To pre-empt your question: no, I have absolutely no idea how Stevie Wonder successfully piloted a snowmobile through the Rocky Mountains of Colorado without killing himself, or indeed anyone else, in the process, but he did.”

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207. “I’ve always been a fan, so my enthusiasm has always been great, but it’s never going to be the same as it was from 1970 to 1975. You cannot repeat that, but you can get inspired by searching, by being mystified.”

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208. “I think that’s the graveyard of musicians, playing cabaret. I think I’d rather be dead than work in cabaret. It’s just so depressing.”

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209. “What we should be doing as musicians is trying to bring people together.”

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210. “Yeah. I have been with David Furnish for eight years, now.”

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211. “I think religion has always tried to turn hatred towards gay people. Religion promotes the hatred and spite against gays. But there are so many Christian people I know who are gay and love their religion.”

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212. “I was more ashamed that I couldn’t work the washing machine than the fact that I was taking drugs.”

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213. “I’ve had my fills of cocaine and pills.”

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214. “Instead of more violence why isn’t there a meeting of religious leaders. It’s all got to be dialogue – that’s the only way. Get everybody from each religion together and say ‘Listen, this can’t go on. Why do we have all this hatred?’”

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215. “Well, I’ve had my fair share in Britain of battling the tabloids.”

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216. “I have a much better relationship with the press than I did, I think because I stood my ground.”

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217. “And there are men behind bars who pray for the light and there are men in the suburbs who pray for the night.”

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218. “It was Saturday late, have you seen my mates, can you tell me when the boys get here? Well, it’s seven o’clock and I want to rock and get a belly full of beer.”

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219. “As Elton John, my days on pop radio are over, and I know that and I accept it and I’m not unhappy about it.”

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220. “I became successful and within five years conquered the world and had the most amazing run. I had so much momentum and adrenaline going, but then it ends and you have to find what level you’re going to be on, how enthusiastic you’re going to be.”

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221. “The thing about Vegas is, I don’t have to fly anywhere, and that really helps. It means I stay in one place for three weeks at a time instead of flying backwards and forwards.”

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222. “I do work a lot. I mean, most of my income, I would say, comes from live performances. And then you’ve got publishing, you’ve got record royalties.”

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223. “Make this man a saint now, OK?”

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224. “At heart I’ve always been a music fan. That part of me has never changed since I was a little kid, sitting in a room watching a record go round, looking at the colour of the labels.”

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225. “We have a society where every hit maker and TV presenter is gay.”

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226. “I used to take hostages in my relationships and not let people be independent. It always ended in disaster, because you take away people’s identity and they end up full of resentment.”

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227. “And there’s no guarantee that if you get HIV and you take these triple therapies, or whatever comes along next, that they’re going to be successful for you.”

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228. “I am the most well-known homosexual in the world.”

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229. “I’ve got to do something to make up for all those self-absorbed and selfish years when I just, you know, was taking drugs, sitting in my room, doing bad things, whatever.”

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230. “And the danger is – and it’s happening – is we’re seeing an incredibly big rise amongst young gay people, young heterosexual people as far as catching HIV, which is, you know, in an educated country like this or in Britain, it’s frightening.”

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231. “A psychologist would probably say that, as a kid, I was trying to create a sense of order in a chaotic life, with my dad coming and going and all the reprimands and rows. I didn’t have control over that, or over my mother’s moods, but I had control over the stuff in my room. Objects couldn’t do me any harm. I found them comforting. I talked to them, I behaved as if they had feelings. If something got broken, I’d feel really upset, as if I’d killed something.”

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232. “The world is near escalating to World War Three and where are the leaders of each religion? Why aren’t they having a conclave; why aren’t they coming together?”

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233. “I’ve never had a writer’s block, but still I think: Is it going to happen this time? You never know what you’re going to get; you just put your fingers on the keys and hope.”

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234. “Because, I figured that, because I was a successful man, I was wealthy, I was, you know, seemingly intelligent – even that I am not intelligent enough to ask for help.”

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235. “And we have come so far like that. I mean, the advances on the medication side have been enormous, and the advances on the human side have been enormous. But we still have this stigma to get rid of, and then we really will be able to see the light at the end of the tunnel.”

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236. “I mean, in some cases with libel laws, you know, they can write things about people who have no course of action, because they can’t afford to take legal action against them.”

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237. “I love the way the American trade magazines never give anybody a bad review because they’re afraid the advertising will be taken out. It’s so hysterical.”

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238. “Until I can visualise what the lyrics are about and see the story or whatever, I can’t hear the melody.”

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239. “I’ve had an amazing professional life, personal life, but at 64 to have a son who gives us that much love and enjoyment is, wow!”

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240. “So I am deeply saddened and shocked over the current legislation that is now in place against the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community here in Russia. In my opinion, it is inhumane and it is isolating.”

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241. “After a while, the only presents I wanted were records and books.”

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242. “It’s hard to see how I could have been given a clearer warning that this was a bad idea unless it had started raining brimstone and I’d been visited by a plague of boils.”

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243. “Dave and I as a couple seem to be the acceptable face of gayness, and that’s great. I’ve got to use that power to try and do what I can – or we have – to try to make the situations in Russia and Poland better.”

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244. “And I trusted someone to look after me on the business side of life.”

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245. “The only thing the record companies put out now is ‘Best of,’”

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246. “And that was the moment my mother turned up, in character as a raving sociopath.”

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247. “Mine was just an ordinary general hospital: the Lutheran, in a suburb of Chicago called Park Ridge. It was a big, grey, monolithic building, with mirrored glass windows. It didn’t seem much like a place that offered yoga classes by the pool. The only thing it had a view of was a shopping centre car park.”

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248. “Keith had basically died from an incurable case of being Keith Moon.”

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249. “Looking like a true survivor, feeling like a little kid!”

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

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