Elton John Quotes

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Elton John

Profession : Musician

Birth : March 25, 1947

I have no one to leave the money to. I'm a single man. I like spending my money.

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I love the idea of the teachings of Jesus Christ and the beautiful stories about it, which I loved in Sunday school and I collected all the little stickers and put them in my book. But the reality is that organised religion doesn't seem to work. It turns people into hateful lemmings and it's not really compassionate.

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

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I grew up conservative because my mum was a conservative, and when I finally realized what conservatives were, I changed my mind immediately. As children, we tend to copy our parents.

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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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If there is a better singer in England than Craig David, then I am Margaret Thatcher.

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I am the most well-known homosexual in the world.

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We live in an age, in an era where there is so much negativity, there is so much violence in the world, there is so much unrest and people are at war, that I wanted to promote the word love and red signifies love.

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Fame attracts lunatics.

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I never thought of myself as being handsome or good-looking or whatever. I always felt like an outsider.

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I love places that have an incredible history. I love the Italian way of life. I love the food. I love the people. I love the attitudes of Italians.

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I've always wanted to smash a guitar over someone's head. You just can't do that with a piano.

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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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Jesus wanted us to be loving and forgiving. I don't know what makes people so cruel.

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For me, music is so passionate, I have to give it my all every time I go onstage. Onstage, it was always comfortable for me, because that's where I felt at home.

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Jesus wanted us to be loving and forgiving.

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

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

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There is nothing wrong with going to bed with someone of your own sex.

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When Little Richard used to stand up and play it was just fabulous, and Liberace had the candlesticks and the rings and the gift of the gab. The piano's is the most ungainly rock' n' roll instrument of all time but those two people transcended it, as did Jerry Lee Lewis.

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