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“Live for each second without hesitation”
― Elton John

“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.”
― Elton John

“Don't shoot me, I'm just the piano player!”
― Elton John

“There’s really no point in asking what if? The only question worth asking is: what’s next?”
― Elton John, Me

“You should never take more than you give”
― Elton John

“Hold me closer tiny dancer, count the headlights on the highway. Lay me down in sheets of linen, you had a busy day today.”
― Elton John

“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.”
― Elton John

“I couldn’t strut around like Mick Jagger, or smash my instrument up like Jimi Hendrix or Pete Townshend: bitter subsequent experience has taught me that if you get carried away and try and smash up a piano by pushing it offstage, you end up looking less like a lawless rock god and more like a furniture removal man having a bad day.”
― Elton John, Me

“Like I said, sometimes a gut feeling is the most important thing; sometimes you have to trust fate.”
― Elton John, Me

“I’ll not complain about your boring life, if you just leave me to mine”
― Elton John, Billy Elliot: The Musical

“Goodbye Norma Jean
From the young man in the 22nd row
Who sees you as something more than sexual
More than just our Marilyn Monroe”
― Elton John

“It was insanity, but it sounded romantic.”
― Elton John, Me

“When stars collide, like you and I, no shadow blocks the sun" - The One”
― Elton John, Elton John - Greatest Hits 1970-2002

“There is nothing wrong with going to bed with someone of your own sex. People should be very free with sex--they should draw the line at goats.”
― Elton John

“You may still be standing, dear,’ it read, ‘but the rest of us are on the fucking floor.”
― Elton John, Me

“Candle In the Wind

Author: Bernie Tauplin

Goodbye Norma Jeane.
Though I never knew you at all.
You had the grace to hold yourself
While those around you crawled.
And they crawled out of the woodwork,
And they whispered into your brain,
They set you on the treadmill
And they made you change your name.

And it seems to me you lived your life
Like a candle in the wind,
Never knowing who to cling to
When the rain set in.
And I would have liked to have known you
But I was just a kid,
Your candle burned out long before
Your legend ever did.

Loneliness was tough.
The toughest role you ever played.
Hollywood created a superstar
And pain was the price you paid.
Even when you died
The press still hounded you-
All the paper had to say
Was that Marilyn was found in the nude.

Goodbye Norma Jeane.
Though I never knew you at all.
You had the grace to hold yourself
While those around you crawled.

Goodbye Norma Jeane.
From the young man in the 22nd row
Who sees you as something more than sexual,
More than just our Marilyn Monroe.”
― Elton John and Bernie Tauplin

“This life's a long old road
We shouldn't have to walk alone
But if you find the right companion
You won't feel so worn out when you've grown
All life is precious
And every day's a prize
And sometimes you'll find an answer in the sky”
― Elton John

“You can send yourself crazy wondering. But it all happened, and here I am. There’s really no point in asking what if? The only question worth asking is: what’s next?”
― Elton John, Me

“At first I stayed in a hotel – the Inn On The Park, the location for the famous story about me ringing the Rocket office and demanding they do something about the wind outside that was keeping me awake. This is obviously the ideal moment to state once and for all that this story is a complete urban myth, that I was never crazy enough to ask my record company to do something about the weather; that I was simply disturbed by the wind and wanted to change rooms to somewhere quieter. Unfortunately, I can’t tell you that, because the story is completely true.”
― Elton John, Me

“Rocket Man, burning out his fuse up here alone.”
― Elton John

“That was just the mindset of the times: that happiness was somehow less important than keeping up appearances.”
― Elton John, Me

“Cause what the hell is wrong with expressing yourself, trying to be me?”
― Elton John, Billy Elliot: The Musical

“If you fancy living in a despondent world of unending, delusional bullshit, I really can’t recommend cocaine highly enough.”
― Elton John, Me

“Having obviously forgiven me for the incident on the Starship, Stevie Wonder turned up one day and took out a snowmobile, insisting on driving it himself. To pre-empt your question: no, I have absolutely no idea how Stevie Wonder successfully piloted a snowmobile through the Rocky Mountains of Colorado without killing himself, or indeed anyone else, in the process, but he did.”
― Elton John, Me

“And yet it was true: the responsibility was huge, but there is nothing about being a father that I don’t love. I even found the toddler tantrums weirdly charming. You think you’re being difficult, my little sausage? Have I ever told you about the time I drank eight vodka martinis, took all my clothes off in front of a film crew and then broke my manager’s nose?”
― Elton John, Me

“You think you’re being difficult, my little sausage? Have I ever told you about the time I drank eight vodka martinis, took all my clothes off in front of a film crew and then broke my manager’s nose?”
― Elton John, Me

“I had no idea how to live, but I didn’t want to die.”
― Elton John, Me

“...only take as much as you give, in the circle of life.”
― Elton John

“I think that people should be free to to engage in any sexual practices they choose. They should draw the line at goats,though.”
― Sir Elton John

“After a while, the only presents I wanted were records and books.”
― Elton John, Me