Elton John Quotes - Page 7

The French are useless. They can't organize a piss-up in a brewery.

I didn't sleep with anyone till I was 23.

There ain't been no angels in heaven around since God invented girls.

Like a candle in the wind, never knowing who to cling to until the rain set it.

I get upset when people knock hip-hop, because I can absolutely see the musicality in it. These days, when I'm listening to records by hip-hop artists, I hear the production. It's just astounding how great the productions have become.

The ugliest woman you'll ever meet, but she's mine and she's ugly.

He [george W. Bush] lived up - well, he was someone that I wouldn't have voted for. His policies were not mine.

I went up to Prince and said 'I'm a big fan of your stuff' and he looked at me and just walked off...left me standing there like a ****. He's a prat, but a clever prat.

I've got a great collection of photography.

My sex drive has gone down so much since I've stopped doing coke. I was one of the few people that, when I did coke, I had an enormous sex drive. I still have a healthy sex life today, but it's not so important.

I think Jesus was a compassionate, super-intelligent gay man who understood human problems. On the cross, he forgave the people who crucified him. Jesus wanted us to be loving and forgiving. I don't know what makes people so cruel. Try being a gay woman in the Middle East -- you're as good as dead.

Religion promotes the hatred and spite against gays. From my point of view, I would ban religion completely. Organised religion doesn't seem to work. It turns people into really hateful lemmings and it's not really compassionate.

My old man is drunker than a barrel full of monkeys, but my old lady she don't care.

Laughing like children, living like lovers, rolling like thunder, under the covers, and I guess that's why they call it the blues.

It's like trying to drink whisky from a bottle of wine.

In my 20s I was so ignorant about drugs, and so naive. I mean, my band was smoking marijuana for years; I didn't even know what a joint was. And I'd never seen a line of cocaine in my life. And I don't know whether it was bravado or - OK, I'll join in. But my stupidity, I had a line of coke, and that started the whole process.

I think that's the graveyard of musicians, playing cabaret. I think I'd rather be dead than work in cabaret. It's just so depressing.

I've got to do something to make up for all those self-absorbed and selfish years when I just, you know, was taking drugs, sitting in my room, doing bad things, whatever.

Blue jean baby, LA lady, seamstress for the band. Pretty eyed, pirate smile, you'll marry a music man. Ballerina, you must have seen her dancing in the sand.

I don't want a Jennifer Lopez wedding or anything like that. A commitment ceremony would be a nice thing to do.

I can't talk about - as eloquently as everyone else about a prevention or medicine or, you know, funding, but I can talk about the human element, which is the main part of AIDS, because it comes to the human being and how they are being treated, what medicines they are on and what medicines they are not on.

Anyone who lip-synchs in public on stage when you pay 75 pounds to see them should be shot.

When stars collide, like you and I, no shadow blocks the sun" - The One

I don't want to spend the rest of my life talking about when I used to drink or when I used to take drugs. I'm more interested in the future.

Don't shoot me, I'm just the piano player!