314 Insightful Elton John Quotes
Music legend Elton John has been active in the industry for over five decades but his passion for it is as alive and thriving as it was when he began his career in the 1960s. Openly gay since the 1980s, he is an LGBTQ icon and a vocal supporter of LGBTQ rights. He has set up the AIDS Foundation to help people living with HIV. His sense of style has always been ostentatious, a perfect fit for his rock-and-roll persona. However, fatherhood has brought about certain changes in his perspective and life. We have collected several of his quotes from various interviews, articles, speeches, and lyrics. Let us take a look at his quotes on music, work, love, money, family, fatherhood and beauty.
You get the same equal rights that we do when we have a civil partnership. Heterosexual people get married. We can have civil partnerships.
You should never take more than you give
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.
You can beat her, but don't mistreat her. Oh, don't believe that woman please.
You and your oven are capable of great things,Remember, no two ovens are the same.
Yeah. I have been with David Furnish for eight years, now.
Who really needs a new album from me?
When your persona begins to take over your music and becomes more important, you enter a dangerous place. Once you have people around you who don't question you, you're in a dangerous place.
When a rumor doesn't go away it's not a rumor
What we should be doing as musicians is trying to bring people together.
What record companies do these days is drain the blood dry of an album, take six singles off it, and harm the longevity of artists' careers by doing it.
What a scandal, if I die. Yeah, I'm gonna kill myself, get a little headline news.
Well, we can't leave anyone behind just because they are sex workers or they are needle users, intravenous drug users, prostitutes.
Well, I've had my fair share in Britain of battling the tabloids.
Well, I'm a huge fan of Ryan Adams, who's from North Carolina. And he's beginning to break really quite big.
Well, I quit those days and my redneck ways.
Well, as I was saying... everyone's so nice to me, usually.
We were both very much the same. We were both very impulsive. We both loved life. We both loved shopping. We both had a love of clothes, obviously, because he was the designer that I kind of wore forever and ever.
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.
We have come so far. It's become a real bipartisan cause, which I'm very happy to see. And in the case of America, and it's - certainly, without America, we'd be facing catastrophe.
We have a society where every hit maker and TV presenter is gay.
Until I can visualise what the lyrics are about and see the story or whatever, I can't hear the melody.
Unless you show off you're not going to get noticed.
Top dog, top hat, move that muscle, move that fat.
To forgive and be forgiven, if it's the last thing I do, then in death's release I may find the peace that in life I never knew.
To fight the violence we must be brave, hold on strong to the love God gave.
Tina Turner gave me the highway blues.
This overload is edging me further out to sea, I need to put some distances between overkill and me.
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There's a time for everyone, If they only learn, that the twisting kaleidoscope moves us all in turn.
