I had no balance in my life. I was this one person onstage and this person offstage, who really didn’t know much about living.
ELTON JOHNI’ve got that resilient thing inside me. But I wasn’t a happy bunny.
More Elton John Quotes
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You and your oven are capable of great things,Remember, no two ovens are the same.
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Mars ain’t the kind of place to raise your kids, in fact it’s cold as hell.
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The great thing about rock and roll is that someone like me can be a star.
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Love’s like a junkie, addiction’s a fact. Passion’s a monkey, you can’t keep off your back.
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I am the most well-known homosexual in the world.
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Live for each second without hesitation.
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Better to build a bridge than a wall.
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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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Sometimes when I’m flying over the Alps I think, ‘that’s like all the cocaine I sniffed.’
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I think Jesus was a compassionate, super-intelligent gay man who understood human problems.
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That’s just a part of being an artist: you can’t write great stuff all the time, because if you did, then you’d be inhuman. The human side of people is that sometimes they fail.
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I had to learn how to function as a human being. And I really enjoyed that process.
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I really appreciate my performing so much better, as I get older. I don’t take it for granted anymore. I really relish it and love it.
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Drunk all the time, feeling fine on elderberry wine.
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I was more ashamed that I couldn’t work the washing machine than the fact that I was taking drugs.
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I just wish more of my fellow queers would come out sometimes. It’s nice out here, you know?
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I used to take hostages in my relationships and not let people be independent. It always ended in disaster, because you take away people’s identity and they end up full of resentment.
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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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Once you have people around you who don’t question you, you’re in a dangerous place.
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You can cage the songbird, but you can’t make her sing. And you can trap the free bird, but you’ll have to clip her wings.
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Unless you show off you’re not going to get noticed.
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There is nothing wrong with going to bed with someone of your own sex. People should be very free with sex, they should draw the line at goats.
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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.
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Talk to each other. Never go to bed when you’re angry with each other. Lady Antonia Frasier who was married to Harold Pinter said they never went to bed on an argument.
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Ever since I had that interview in which I said I was bisexual it seems twice as many people wave at me in the streets.
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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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