Elton John Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“I grew up conservative because my mum was a conservative, and when I finally realized what conservatives were, I changed my mind immediately.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“If you write great songs with meaning and emotion, they will last for ever because songs are the key to everything.”
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“Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.”
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“I didn't have sex until I was 23 and that was with a man. I made up for lost time after that in a hurry. I wish I could have had sex when I was, like, 14, 15 or 16 because that's such an exciting age to have sex.”
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“And I'm afraid, in this day and age, trust, which I count so, you know, I love loyalty. I love trust.”
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“I grew up in the Fifties and early Sixties, which were still quite conservative, and I wasn't given any information about sex or anything like that; I went out with girls at school because one had to. I didn't experiment with sex for quite a long time.”
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“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.”
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“We have a society where every hit maker and TV presenter is gay.”
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“There's a time for everyone, If they only learn, that the twisting kaleidoscope moves us all in turn.”
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“I love drag queens and I love going to see them perform because those people have got so much character and bravery. Such balls! I love people with balls.”
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“Johnny, can't you come out to play in your empty garden?”
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“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.”
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“My mum always used to buy a record every Friday.”
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“What we should be doing as musicians is trying to bring people together.”
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“I was more ashamed that I couldn't work the washing machine than the fact that I was taking drugs.”
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“We can't keep thinking of gay people as being ostracised; we can't keep thinking of Muslim people as being ostracised because of the fundamentalism that occurs in Islam. Muslim people have to do something about speaking up about it. We can't judge a book by its cover.”
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“I want to do a musical movie. Like Evita, but with good music.”
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“The world is near escalating to World War Three and where are the leaders of each religion? Why aren't they having a conclave; why aren't they coming together?”
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“I was just genuinely shy. I'd always been a shy kid.”
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“Instead of more violence why isn't there a meeting of religious leaders. It's all got to be dialogue - that's the only way. Get everybody from each religion together and say 'Listen, this can't go on. Why do we have all this hatred?'”
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“Everything I thought I'd hate about having children - the crying, the screaming - nothing fazes me. I love it all, and it's relaxed me.”
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“I do like my rock stars to be a little larger than life. I don't mind the earnest ones at all, but I do like a bit of individuality.”
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“I love places that have an incredible history. I love the Italian way of life. I love the food. I love the people. I love the attitudes of Italians.”
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“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.”
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“I am totally against the war but violence is part of mankind and it's going to happen, but as musicians I think we've got to step up and say 'come on'.”
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“The AIDS disease is caused by a virus, but the AIDS epidemic is not. The AIDS epidemic is fueled by stigma, by hate, by misinformation, by ignorance, by indifference. Science has accomplished miracles over the past 20 years, and science can now end this disease - but it cannot end the epidemic. We need more than medicine. We can do something about these things. We need to speak out about the changes we need to make in our society.”
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“Dave and I as a couple seem to be the acceptable face of gayness, and that's great. I've got to use that power to try and do what I can - or we have - to try to make the situations in Russia and Poland better.”
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“The great thing about rock and roll is that someone like me can be a star.”
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