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I have an optimistic view of everything. You have to, otherwise you’d go nuts.

Elton John

The great thing about rock and roll is that someone like me can be a star.
ELTON JOHN

Fame Greatness Myself Stardom
I never thought of myself as being handsome or good-looking or whatever.
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Appearance Goodness Myself
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
There ain’t been no angels in heaven around since God invented girls.
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Angel God Heaven Invention Woman
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.
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Life Myself Old Performance Quality Satisfaction Skin
You and your oven are capable of great things,Remember, no two ovens are the same.
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Different Greatness Remember Yourself
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
As a child, as a teenager, I was kind of not allowed to wear fashionable clothes.
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Children Clothes Fashion Kind Myself Restriction
You should never take more than you give.
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Generosity One Liner Yourself
I am the most well-known homosexual in the world.
ELTON JOHN

Fame Identity Myself Proud World
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
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
The less I say the more my work gets done.
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Myself Talk Work
Don’t judge the picture by the frame, every man is not the same.
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Frame Judgement Man Photograph
Live for each second without hesitation.
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Hesitation Live One Liner
Better to build a bridge than a wall.
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Better Bridge Build Wall
Hold me closer tiny dancer, count the headlights on the highway. Lay me down in sheets of linen, you had a busy day today.
ELTON JOHN

Busy Close Dance Hold Yourself
How wonderful life is while you’re in the world
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Life Wonderful World Yourself
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
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.
ELTON JOHN

Better Love Myself Old Performance

I have an optimistic view of everything. You have to, otherwise you’d go nuts.

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