Bands today have to learn their craft by putting the hard work in that we did when we were young performers.
ELTON JOHNIf you write great songs with meaning and emotion, they will last for ever because songs are the key to everything.
More Elton John Quotes
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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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Talk to each other. Never go to bed when you’re angry with each other. Lady Antonia Frasier who was married to Harold Pinter said they never went to bed on an argument.
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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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What a scandal, if I die. Yeah, I’m gonna kill myself, get a little headline news.
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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 lot of hate in the world.
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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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The great thing about rock and roll is that someone like me can be a star.
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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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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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I was sitting in the classroom trying to look intelligent in case the teacher looked at me.
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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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How wonderful life is while you’re in the world
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There is nothing wrong with going to bed with someone of your own sex. People should be very free with sex, they should draw the line at goats.
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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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