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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Sometimes when I’m flying over the Alps I think, ‘that’s like all the cocaine I sniffed.’
ELTON JOHN

Drugs Myself Thinking
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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Artist Failure Greatness Human People Side Time Writing
I’ve always wanted to smash a guitar over someone’s head. You just can’t do that with a piano.
ELTON JOHN

Head Instrument Music Myself Yourself
Like a candle in the wind, never knowing who to cling to until the rain set it.
ELTON JOHN

Attraction Rain Wind
Drunk all the time, feeling fine on elderberry wine.
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Drink Feeling Time Wine
Fame attracts lunatics.
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Attraction Fame Mad
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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Interview Myself People
I was just genuinely shy. I’d always been a shy kid.
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Character Children Myself Shy
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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Greatness Key Music Song Writing
Sweet freedom whispered in my ear, you’re a butterfly, and butterflies are free to fly, fly away, high-away, bye-bye.
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Butterfly Freedom Myself
I had to learn how to function as a human being. And I really enjoyed that process.
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Enjoyment Function Human Learning Process
Love’s like a junkie, addiction’s a fact. Passion’s a monkey, you can’t keep off your back.
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Addiction Fact Love Passion Yourself
Welcome to the world of bullshit, my dear. You have arrived.
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Instagram Captions World Yourself
If there’s a God in heaven, what’s he waiting for? If He can’t hear the children, then he must see the war.
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Children God Heaven Himself See Wait War
I love people who expect me to wear great, feathery costumes- and I do it. It’s like an actor getting into his costume for his part. I don’t really feel that part until I’m into whatever I’m going to wear.
ELTON JOHN

Expectation Greatness Love Myself People
I have an optimistic view of everything. You have to, otherwise you’d go nuts.
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Eyes Myself Optimistic Positive Sight View Yourself
Don’t be afraid to let her into your heart and when your down, don’t try to carry the whole world on your shoulders.
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Afraid Carry Heart Shoulder Try World Yourself
There’s a time for everyone, If they only learn, that the twisting kaleidoscope moves us all in turn.
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Learning Move Time
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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Age Live Love Negative People Red Violence War World
You don’t know being a performer what kind of performance you’re going to give. You know you can give a certain quality of performance, but as I grow older I’m much more content in my own skin because when I come offstage, I have a balance in my life.
ELTON JOHN

Life Myself Old Performance Quality Satisfaction Skin
It’s the circle of life, and it moves us all, through despair and hope, through faith and love, ’till we find our place, on the path unwinding.
ELTON JOHN

Faith Hope Life Love Path Place
Love is the key we must turn, truth is the flame we must burn.
ELTON JOHN

Burn Flame Key Love Truth
It’s very important to have two tiaras when you’re on the road. You never know when you’ll be invited to something really formal.
ELTON JOHN

Formal Important Invitation Road Yourself
So I am deeply saddened and shocked over the current legislation that is now in place against the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community here in Russia. In my opinion, it is inhumane and it is isolating.
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Alone Community Deep Human Myself Opinion Place Sad
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.
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Balance Life Live Myself Person
I was more ashamed that I couldn’t work the washing machine than the fact that I was taking drugs.
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Drugs Fact Myself Shame Work
Don’t you know I”m still standing better than I ever did. Looking like a true survivor, feeling like a little kid. I’m still standing after all this time.
ELTON JOHN

Better Children Feeling Myself Stand Survive True

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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