Elton John Quotes

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

Actually, the reason I look like this is because my father was from Sweden and my mother was Elton John. ~ Jim Gaffigan

Don't judge the picture by the frame, every man is not the same ~ Elton John

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

I find that so many of my peers of my age don't listen to anything new. But I love the new. I love the energy of the new, the energy of the new act. The young are so important. The young give you the energy, and if you don't notice the young, and you don't give them credit and you don't listen to all sorts of music, then you're missing out on something. ~ Elton John

I hope you don't mind,
I hope you don't mind,
that I put into words,
how wonderful life is,
now you're in the world. ~ Elton John

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

Cause what the hell is wrong with expressing yourself, trying to be me? ~ Elton John

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. ~ Elton John

I tour as many countries as possible, and I've toured every state in America, plus every province in Canada. ~ Elton John

No tears to damn you when jealousy burns. ~ Elton John

Talk to each other. Never go to bed when you're angry with each other. Lady Antonia Frasier who was married to Harold Pinter said they never went to bed on an argument. ~ Elton John

I'm enjoying everything in my life, but I think the element of surprise in show business is what makes us really love it, because one day you're sitting by the phone waiting to do something or not doing anything, and the next day you've got the chance of a lifetime. Those little phone calls don't come up so often, but when they come up, it's fantastic. ~ Elton John

I just wish more of my fellow queers would come out sometimes. It's nice out here, you know? ~ Elton John

My influences are Alice in Chains and Elton John. ~ Christian Kane

I am the biggest technophobe of all time. ~ Elton John

Don't shoot me, I'm just the piano player! ~ Elton John

Bands today have to learn their craft by putting the hard work in that we did when we were young performers. ~ Elton John

The AIDS disease is caused by a virus, but the AIDS epidemic is not. The AIDS epidemic is fueled by stigma, by hate, by misinformation, by ignorance, by indifference. Science has accomplished miracles over the past 20 years, and science can now end this disease - but it cannot end the epidemic. We need more than medicine. We can do something about these things. We need to speak out about the changes we need to make in our society. ~ Elton John

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

And there are men behind bars who pray for the light and there are men in the suburbs who pray for the night. ~ Elton John

There ain't been no angels in heaven around since God invented girls. ~ Elton John

I had a little Richard and that black piano, oh that sweet Georgia Peach, and the boy form Tupelo. ~ Elton John

I guess that's why they call it the blues, time on my hands could be time spent with you. ~ Elton John

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

The collaboration wish list is huge, very long. It goes from people like Elton John, for whom I have an unbelievable amount of respect, to Snoop Dogg, whom I also respect a great deal. ~ Dave Koz

What we should be doing as musicians is trying to bring people together. ~ Elton John

But actually, my drug addiction thing, I was so stubborn. ~ Elton John

You know, no one should be marginalized in society when it comes to health. And, you know, we have - as a foundation, we have tried to champion those people and be by - be by their side and say, listen, these people cannot be forgotten. If you forget about them, then the disease is never going to go away. ~ Elton John

I think performers are all show-offs anyway, especially musicians. Unless you show off, you're not going to get noticed. ~ Elton John

He [Ryan White] had a kind of angelic aura about him. And his family, too, it's like, they are going through all this suffering, and I'm living this "Life of Riley" and I'm complaining about everything, and they are living this horrific life and complaining about nothing. ~ Elton John

Simon Cowell and I are great friends, and we wind each other up. Rod Stewart and I do the same thing. ~ Elton John

Well, the stuff that I liked growing up was AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, but I also liked the Beatles and guys like Cat Stevens and Elton John. ~ Dave Mustaine

I've always been dead set against festivals - really suspicious and wary. ~ Elton John

Lawdy Mama, those Friday nights when Suzy wore her dresses down tight. ~ Elton John

I am so in the past. I'm such a Luddite when it comes to making music. All I can do is write at the piano. ~ Elton John

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. ~ Elton John

Onstage it was always comfortable for me because that's where I felt at home. Offstage it was a different situation. I was still shy offstage and unfortunately, my shyness and my inability to communicate and really have great conversations or be part of the gang - in inverted commas - led me to the drug addiction, which, you know, blighted my life for 16 years because I thought by doing that it would make me join in. ~ Elton John

From the start, I've always admired Eminem's thinking. That's the reason I wanted to appear on the Grammys with him when I was asked. Eminem has the balls to say what he feels and to make offensive things funny. That's very necessary today in America, with people being muzzled and irony becoming a lost art. Artists like Eminem who use their free speech to get a point across are vitally important. There just aren't many people in the world with balls that big and talent that awesome. ~ Elton John

I dabbled a little bit in the whole music thing but I've always thought about Bernie Taupin, who is Elton John's lyricist; Elton John is the great melody and song writer but Bernie Taupin is the one who writes all the lyrics. I don't write lyrics, and I never wanted to be in the music business if I was just going to be a puppet in it. ~ Carmen Ejogo

The less I say the more my work gets done. ~ Elton John

She felt the State of Rock was symbolised by the stadium-type concerts given earlier that summer by the likes of the Who the Stones and Elton John, causing her to opine, 'The time is right for an aggressive infusion of life blood.' She also claimed the new London punk scene had not been inspired by the New York new wave, but was instead developing parallel to it. ~ Marcus Gray

I tried to commit suicide one day. It was a very Woody Allen-type suicide. I turned on the gas and left all the windows open. ~ Elton John

But until we get rid of that shame, then people are going to stay underground, they are not going to get tested, and we're facing an uphill battle [with AIDS]. ~ Elton John

I've dodged so many bullets. Not just because of unsafe sex, but because of the amount of drugs I did, the amount of alcohol, the amount of work I was doing. I started the Elton John AIDS Foundation because I got so lucky. ~ Elton John

I suspected my homosexuality, but I'd never acted out on it because I was afraid of sex. It's awful to be afraid of sex. ~ Elton John

I never thought of myself as being handsome or good-looking or whatever. ~ Elton John

It's much too late to save myself from falling. ~ Elton John

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

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

I'll even pay sometimes for a woman that's ugly. ~ Elton John

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. ~ Elton John

You and your oven are capable of great things,Remember, no two ovens are the same. ~ Elton John

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

Married?" my mother said.
I was waiting for, "What, like Elton John?" or some such.
"Yes, Mum."
"Well, I suppose that means you won't catch AIDS."
"Very true," said I. "Wedding rings are more than adequate protection… ~ Debbie McGowan

There's a lot of hate in the world. ~ Elton John

I just think you shouldn't expect people to pay money to see someone sing live and then lip-synch. ~ Elton John

The only thing the record companies put out now is 'Best of,' ~ Elton John

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. ~ Elton John

Some kneel and lie to God. ~ Elton John

And now South Africa has finally woken up and it is doing great things. And if South Africa becomes the template to what AIDS is in the sub-Saharan continent, then all the other countries are going to follow suit. And Michel Sidibe, who spoke at the breakfast meeting this morning, was saying that there is so much hope for Africa now that South Africa has got its house in order. ~ Elton John

I listen to Billy Joel. He is fabulous. I saw him with Elton John when they toured together, it was so great. ~ Marlee Matlin

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

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

I just sit there and make up songs and sing to [my son] in gibberish. I'm very good at gibberish now. ~ Elton John

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

Who really needs a new album from me? ~ Elton John

They're [[harmaceuticals companies] just making a killing out of people's death. And they're benefiting by people's suffering. And I find that obscene. I find it ridiculous in this day and age, that that would happen. And it took President Clinton to go to rogue pharmaceutical companies to copy the antiretroviral drugs for a fraction of the cost. ~ Elton John

I was just genuinely shy. I'd always been a shy kid. ~ Elton John

And I'm afraid, in this day and age, trust, which I count so, you know, I love loyalty. I love trust. ~ Elton John

My mum always used to buy a record every Friday. ~ Elton John

I'm a very wealthy man. ~ Elton John

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

Nobody put the camera on the background singers who were singing. It was on Stevie Wonder. It was on Elton John. It was on whoever was the lead singer out front. We were 20 feet from stardom. ~ Darlene Love

I can't talk about - as eloquently as everyone else about a prevention or medicine or, you know, funding, but I can talk about the human element, which is the main part of AIDS, because it comes to the human being and how they are being treated, what medicines they are on and what medicines they are not on. ~ Elton John

It'll take you a couple of vodka and tonics to set you on your feet again. ~ Elton John

My songwriting is so influenced by orchestrated music, dramatic, super glam rock-y stuff. Two of my biggest influences in songwriting were Elton John and Freddie Mercury. ~ Brandi Carlile

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. ~ Elton John

It's like trying to drink whisky from a bottle of wine. ~ Elton John

Well, we can't leave anyone behind just because they are sex workers or they are needle users, intravenous drug users, prostitutes. ~ Elton John

People who mock rap and say, "I don't like it" should go and check out Kanye [West] in the studio rapping, or Marshall, Eminem, when he's in the studio. It's a phenomenon. Don't knock it until you've seen it. It may not be your cup of tea, but don't ridicule it. ~ Elton John

This book is entirely dedicated to my wife, Robin Sullivan.
Some have asked how it is I write such strong women without resorting to putting swords in their hands. It is because of her.
She is Arista.
She is Thrace.
She is Modina.
She is Amilia.
And she is my Gwen.
This series has been a tribute to her.
This is your book, Robin.
I hope you don't mind that I put down in words
How wonderful life is while you're in the world.
ELTON JOHN, BERNIE TAUPIN ~ Michael J. Sullivan

When your persona begins to take over your music and becomes more important, you enter a dangerous place. Once you have people around you who don't question you, you're in a dangerous place. ~ Elton John

Elton John can be a master of the sleight of hand. The arrangements make it seem like there are substantial melodies underneath the tracks - but almost nothing demands repeated listenings. Similarly, he always sounds like he's singing up a storm, but his voice glosses over the material, reducing most things to an uninteresting sameness. ~ Jon Landau

It was a free-for-all with music when I was growing up. My mother was a huge music fanatic so I was listening to everything from country to heavy metal to Indigo Girls to Elton John. I guess when I was really young I didn't like Willie Nelson, and she obviously loved him. Now I do too, I'm so thankful to her for playing his music nonstop. ~ Tig Notaro

When Elton John sang a duet with the white rapper Eminem on a Grammy telecast, rap went mainstream. Massive parental headaches followed. ~ Bill O'Reilly

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

I don't think there can ever be too many messages about AIDS. If you stop the education process, then people are going to think the problem is all over and done with. They'll think that it's OK to go and have sex again. Education is essential, especially among young people. ~ Elton John

It's the circle of life, and it moves us all, through despair and hope, through faith and love, 'till we find our place, on the path unwinding. ~ Elton John

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. ~ Elton John

Top dog, top hat, move that muscle, move that fat. ~ Elton John

Honestly, I was just happy to get the work. I was chuffed to bits. I know David Furnish and Elton John a bit and I remember David talking very excitedly about it. This was going back four or five years even, when we were doing Little Britain at the Hammersmith Apollo. I'd lost my voice that night, but still did the show. I remember thinking: "God, they're going to think that's my voice and I'm not going to get in the film!" But it's just been a pleasure to be a part of. ~ Matt Lucas

Your eyes have died, but you see more than I. ~ Elton John

I never really made a full album in Los Angeles before. ~ Elton John

It turned out so well because it was the first album that I could identify with in terms of lyrics. ("Captain Fantastic") It was passionate ... I could associate myself with every song ... It's a unique album in our history. This was the story of us ... "Curtains", the lyrics to that are so beautiful because it sums up our friendship so much, and our relationship. ~ Elton John

Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours. ~ Elton John

I was more ashamed that I couldn't work the washing machine than the fact that I was taking drugs. ~ Elton John

I was ready to approach her with my English charm, when her brass knuckled boyfriend grabbed me by the arm. ~ Elton John

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

When we started, I was delivering meals to people in Atlanta. We were a direct-care organization. And it was - people needed meals, they needed transport, they needed medication, they needed buddy systems. They had a death sentence. There was AZT, and that was just prolonging the agony, basically. Now people, of course, if they are on antiretrovirals, they face a lifetime of health, basically. I mean, it doesn't - it's I would say in the 99 percent certainty bracket that if you are on that medication, you will have a healthy life. ~ Elton John