Elton John Quotes

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Elton John

Profession : Musician

Birth : March 25, 1947

When people go to rehab and come out, they go through a difficult period, but I never had that.

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I'm very relaxed. I have a family, I have a partner of 20 years, I have a wonderful life; nothing could be better.

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The great thing about small children is they're portable, so we take them everywhere, but when it comes to 2015, Zachary's going to school, and I want to be there to drop him off and pick him up. I don't want to just be the father who reads them a bedtime story.

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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.

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

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Everything I thought I'd hate about having children - the crying, the screaming - nothing fazes me. I love it all, and it's relaxed me.

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It's just so wonderful to have someone in the house like a child to turn your attention to. It's not about you anymore, it's about this lovely little human being.

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

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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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My mum always used to buy a record every Friday.

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I'm so proud to be on a Kate Bush record; she's always marched to the beat of her own drum.

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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.

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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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I do like my rock stars to be a little larger than life. I don't mind the earnest ones at all, but I do like a bit of individuality.

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I am the biggest technophobe of all time.

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I hate to say this, but I always listen to the music and the instrumentation first, and then grab on to the lyrics later.

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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.

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