Elton John Quotes

Elton John (64)

Birth:	25th March, 1947
Nationality:	American, British
Profession:	Actor, Composer, Lyricist, Pianist, Record Producer, Singer

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Births

• 1976 - Blake Shelton
• 1957 - Richard Powers
• 1941 - Delia Smith
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• 1979 - Sigmund Graff

• 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.

  Elton John

  Topics in Business, Family

  Tags in Successful, Friends

• 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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  Tags in Grandmother, House, Beautiful, Garden

• I’ve got to do something to make up for all those self-absorbed and selfish years when I just, you know, was taking drugs, sitting in my room, doing bad things, whatever

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  Tags in Self, Absorbed

• I was more ashamed that I couldn’t work the washing machine than the fact that I was taking drugs.

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  Topics in Work

  Tags in Washing, Machine

• I think people should be free to engage in any s*xual practices they choose; they should draw the line at goats though.

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  Tags in People, Practice

• I used to get my money at the end of the week, buy my mum something, or buy a record, and that was it.

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  Topics in Money, Mother

• I never really made a full album in Los Angeles before.

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  Tags in Los Angeles, Album

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

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• I have a much better relationship with the press than I did, I think because I stood my ground.

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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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Successful

• 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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  Topics in History, Life

  Tags in Incredible

• I have a lot of money stashed away, but I do live my life from day to day.

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  Topics in Life, Money

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

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  Tags in Homosexuals, World

• 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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  Tags in Like, Self, Person

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

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  Tags in Band, Hard Work, Young, Performers

• 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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  Topics in Love

  Tags in Self, Loyalty

• And I trusted someone to look after me on the business side of life.

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  Topics in Life

  Tags in Trusted, Someone

• And I agreed with that, and I couldn’t wait to change my name anyway, because I’m not too fond of the name of Reginald. It’s a very kind of ’50s English name.

  Elton John

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Agreed

• And the danger is – and it’s happening – is we’re seeing an incredibly big rise amongst young gay people, young heterosexual people as far as catching HIV, which is, you know, in an educated country like this or in Britain, it’s frightening.

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  Tags in People, Young, Heterosexual, Britain

• An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make.

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