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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 John

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
Don’t judge the picture by the frame, every man is not the same.
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Frame Judgement Man Photograph
Sometimes when I’m flying over the Alps I think, ‘that’s like all the cocaine I sniffed.’
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Drugs Myself Thinking
Love is the key we must turn, truth is the flame we must burn.
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Burn Flame Key Love Truth
I was just genuinely shy. I’d always been a shy kid.
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Character Children Myself Shy
It seems to me, sorry seems to be the hardest word.
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Hard Myself Sorry Word
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
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.
ELTON JOHN

Alone Community Deep Human Myself Opinion Place Sad
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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Hard Work Learning Performance Young
I’ve got that resilient thing inside me. But I wasn’t a happy bunny.
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Endurance Happiness Myself Resilience
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
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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Children Time Worst Yourself
If you write great songs with meaning and emotion, they will last for ever because songs are the key to everything.
ELTON JOHN

Greatness Key Music Song Writing
Hold me closer tiny dancer, count the headlights on the highway. Lay me down in sheets of linen, you had a busy day today.
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Busy Close Dance Hold Yourself
Don’t let the sun go down on me Although I search myself, it’s always someone else I see I’d just allow a fragment of your life to wander free But losing everything is like the sun going down on me
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Fragment Life Myself Search Sun
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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Head Instrument Music Myself Yourself
I guess that’s why they call it the blues, time on my hands could be time spent with you.
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Call Hands Myself Spend Time
You should never take more than you give.
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Generosity One Liner Yourself
Once you have people around you who don’t question you, you’re in a dangerous place.
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Dangerous People Place Question Yourself
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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End Identity Independent People Relationship Resentment
The great thing about rock and roll is that someone like me can be a star.
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Fame Greatness Myself Stardom
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
I think religion has always tried to turn hatred towards gay people. Religion promotes the hatred and spite against gays. But there are so many Christian people I know who are gay and love their religion.
ELTON JOHN

Gay Hate Love People Religion Religious
I’m a juvenile product of the working class, who’s best friend floats in the bottom of a glass.
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Best Class Float Friendship Production Work
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
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

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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