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.
ELTON JOHNI’m a juvenile product of the working class, who’s best friend floats in the bottom of a glass.
More Elton John Quotes
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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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The great thing about rock and roll is that someone like me can be a star.
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I have a lot of money stashed away, but I do live my life from day to day.
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I’m going to fight for human rights, whether I do it silently behind the scenes or vocally so that I get locked up. I can’t just sit back; it’s not in my nature. I can’t sit back and blindly ignore it, and I won’t.
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It seems to me, sorry seems to be the hardest word.
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Welcome to the world of bullshit, my dear. You have arrived.
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My mantra is if you raise money, don’t waste it.
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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.
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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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I never thought of myself as being handsome or good-looking or whatever.
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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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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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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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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.
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And I’m afraid, in this day and age, trust, which I count so, you know, I love loyalty. I love trust.
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