Elton John Quotes

Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.

Better to build a bridge than a wall.

Don't judge the picture by the frame, every man is not the same

Unless you show off you're not going to get noticed.

Live for each second without hesitation

How wonderful life is while you're in the world

Once you have people around you who don't question you, you're in a dangerous place.

Love is the key we must turn, truth is the flame we must burn.

If you write great songs with meaning and emotion, they will last for ever because songs are the key to everything.

Welcome to the world of bullshit, my dear. You have arrived.

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

I hope you don't mind, I hope you don't mind, that I put into words, how wonderful life is, now you're in the world.

Sometimes when I’m flying over the Alps I think, 'that’s like all the cocaine I sniffed.'

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.

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

The less I say the more my work gets done.

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.

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.

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.

Ask anyone. If it hadn't been for Elvis, I don't know where popular music would be. He was the one that started it all off, and he was definitely the start of it for me.

There's a time for everyone, If they only learn, that the twisting kaleidoscope moves us all in turn.

I've always wanted to smash a guitar over someone's head. You just can't do that with a piano.

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.

I am the most well-known homosexual in the world.

Fame attracts lunatics.