Elton John Quotes

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Elton John

Profession : Musician

Birth : March 25, 1947

I've got that resilient thing inside me. But I wasn't a happy bunny.

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I mean, Sting is one of my great buddies and I love him to death.

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Well, I was making a record, and I had to choose a name, because they said, you know, you can't make a record under the name of Reg Dwight, because it's never going to - you know, it's not attractive enough.

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I'd always lived with people - my family, or had people living with me, because I'd never liked being on my own.

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I rarely wear tennis shoes. I'm 5' 8', I hate being short.

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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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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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I've got a great collection of photography.

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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.

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

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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.

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I'm a great lover of children. I never thought that one day I'd actually be a father, but I'm very pleased that I changed my mind. Children are extremely important. They are the future of the world.

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If you write great songs with meaning and emotion, they will last for ever because songs are the key to everything. Songs will outlast the artist and they will go on for ever if they are good.

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There's a lot of hate in the world.

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

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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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I've only been interested in the artistic side of life.

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I could never go onstage in denims.

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