Elton John Quotes

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
Unless you show off you’re not going to get noticed.
ELTON JOHN

Notice Presence See Yourself
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.
ELTON JOHN

Angry Argument Bed Each Other Marriage Talk
I’m a juvenile product of the working class, who’s best friend floats in the bottom of a glass.
ELTON JOHN

Best Class Float Friendship Production Work
I think Jesus was a compassionate, super-intelligent gay man who understood human problems.
ELTON JOHN

Compassionate God Human Intelligence Myself Problem Thinking Understand
I never thought of myself as being handsome or good-looking or whatever.
ELTON JOHN

Appearance Goodness Myself
The worst thing you can do to a child, and I’ve seen it happen so many times, is the silver spoon.
ELTON JOHN

Children Time Worst Yourself
Love is the key we must turn, truth is the flame we must burn.
ELTON JOHN

Burn Flame Key Love Truth
I had to learn how to function as a human being. And I really enjoyed that process.
ELTON JOHN

Enjoyment Function Human Learning Process
Fame attracts lunatics.
ELTON JOHN

Attraction Fame Mad
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
Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.
ELTON JOHN

Healing Music People Power Time
You should never take more than you give.
ELTON JOHN

Generosity One Liner Yourself
We live in an age, in an era where there is so much negativity, there is so much violence in the world, there is so much unrest and people are at war, that I wanted to promote the word love and red signifies love.
ELTON JOHN

Age Live Love Negative People Red Violence War World
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 have an optimistic view of everything. You have to, otherwise you’d go nuts.
ELTON JOHN

Eyes Myself Optimistic Positive Sight View Yourself
Like a candle in the wind, never knowing who to cling to until the rain set it.
ELTON JOHN

Attraction Rain Wind
Sometimes when I’m flying over the Alps I think, ‘that’s like all the cocaine I sniffed.’
ELTON JOHN

Drugs Myself Thinking
There’s a time for everyone, If they only learn, that the twisting kaleidoscope moves us all in turn.
ELTON JOHN

Learning Move Time
You and your oven are capable of great things,Remember, no two ovens are the same.
ELTON JOHN

Different Greatness Remember Yourself
Drunk all the time, feeling fine on elderberry wine.
ELTON JOHN

Drink Feeling Time Wine
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

Balance Life Live Myself Person
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 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.
ELTON JOHN

End Identity Independent People Relationship Resentment
I am the most well-known homosexual in the world.
ELTON JOHN

Fame Identity Myself Proud World
Mars ain’t the kind of place to raise your kids, in fact it’s cold as hell.
ELTON JOHN

Fact Hell Kind Rise Yourself
And I’m afraid, in this day and age, trust, which I count so, you know, I love loyalty. I love trust.
ELTON JOHN

Afraid Age Count Day Love Loyalty Myself

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