Elton John Quotes - Page 5

Rocket Man, burning out his fuse up here alone.

The worst thing you can do to a child, and I've seen it happen so many times, is the silver spoon.

I think religion has always tried to turn hatred towards gay people. Religion promotes the hatred and spite against gays. But there are so many Christian people I know who are gay and love their religion...

An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make.

Take me to the pilot of your soul.

At heart I've always been a music fan. That part of me has never changed since I was a little kid, sitting in a room watching a record go round, looking at the colour of the labels.

I do work a lot. I mean, most of my income, I would say, comes from live performances. And then you've got publishing, you've got record royalties.

And I agreed with that, and I couldn't wait to change my name anyway, because I'm not too fond of the name of Reginald. It's a very kind of '50s English name.

I'm not bored with my life. I'm not just making the records and touring, I would find that boring.

I'm the ultimate record fan. I still go out and buy records.

I don't think you can recreate anything from the past. You can not do it. If you're going to go out and imitate a Motown sound, you can't do it, it's impossible because of the studios and players involved and the atmosphere.

It was also great to have the Backstreet Boys appear on stage with me because I have gotten to know them all a little bit just recently, and not only are they great performers, but they also very hard working professionals and really nice guys.

I've watched other people singing, I've become a much better singer. I've become a singer that plays the piano instead of a piano player that sings.

Well, I've had my fair share in Britain of battling the tabloids.

I'm lucky enough and wealthy enough to be able to buy photographs and buy art that inspires me from day to day. I don't want a Picasso on my wall; it's great art, but it's dead art to me. I'd rather have a photograph by someone I've never heard of that really inspires me.

I spent the last week of Ryan's life in Indiana, Indianapolis, with Jeanne and Andrea, Jeanne, his mother, Andrea, his sister, and some other beautiful people who came. And it taught me a lesson.

My mum always used to buy a record every Friday.

I heard Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis, and that was it. I didn't ever want to be anything else. I just started banging away and semi-studied classical music at the Royal Academy of Music but sort of half-heartedly.

I don't have to compete in the charts. I can just be myself as a musician, a songwriter and play with the musicians that I really love.

I think performers are all show-offs anyway, especially musicians. Unless you show off, you're not going to get noticed.

If there is a better singer in England than Craig David, then I am Margaret Thatcher.

If you don't understand hip-hop, you just have to see it being recorded.

I've always enjoyed and loved playing live. I relish and cherish it more than anything else because you never know what the performance is going to be.

I've always been a fan, so my enthusiasm has always been great, but it's never going to be the same as it was from 1970 to 1975. You cannot repeat that, but you can get inspired by searching, by being mystified.

You and your oven are capable of great things,Remember, no two ovens are the same.