I was sitting in the classroom trying to look intelligent in case the teacher looked at me.
ELTON JOHNYou 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.
More Elton John Quotes
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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.
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I’m a juvenile product of the working class, who’s best friend floats in the bottom of a glass.
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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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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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There’s a time for everyone, If they only learn, that the twisting kaleidoscope moves us all in turn.
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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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Fame attracts lunatics.
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I love every minute of fatherhood, staying up all night, changing nappies, kids crying, I find it really funny and inspiring. It connects you to the world in a new way.
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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 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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I was just genuinely shy. I’d always been a shy kid.
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Better to build a bridge than a wall.
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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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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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Like a candle in the wind, never knowing who to cling to until the rain set it.
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