Elton John

Singer

1947-03-25

English singer, songwriter, and pianist known for one of the most commercially successful careers in popular music. He has remained an influential recording and touring artist across decades.

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Quotes by Elton John

Live for each second without hesitation
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Live for each second without hesitation
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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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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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An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make.
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I do like Britney Spears. I think she's cute. I think she's fun. And I like her records. You know, I'm not a pop snob whatsoever. I think she makes great pop records.
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I have no one to leave the money to. I'm a single man. I like spending my money.
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I mean, Sting is one of my great buddies and I love him to death.
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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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Well, I've had my fair share in Britain of battling the tabloids.
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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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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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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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If there is a better singer in England than Craig David, then I am Margaret Thatcher.
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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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If I was to say what I am, I'd be a Labour man. I like Tony Blair a lot, I think he's a good man. And in America I'd definitely be a Democrat; I'd never be a Republican.
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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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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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And I'm afraid, in this day and age, trust, which I count so, you know, I love loyalty. I love trust.
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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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