Bernie Taupin quotes
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“Basically it takes me very little time to write a song. If I find myself taking more than an hour to do it I usually forget it, and try something else. I like to work quickly; I never like to waste any time. I never write half a song and come back to it later at all. It all has to be done at once. I lose interest if it doesn't.”
-- Bernie TaupinSource : Source: www.rollingstone.com
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“The worst thing about me is that I'll buy albums and put them away on the shelf and forget that I've got them.”
-- Bernie TaupinSource : Source: www.rollingstone.com
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“My favorite thing is coming up with titles. The majority of the songs I've every written I've always thought of the title before I've written the song.”
-- Bernie TaupinSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets.”
-- Bernie TaupinSource : "Bernie Taupin: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 2, 2012.
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“Lincolnshire is the Idaho of England. You were either going to drive a tractor for the rest of your life or head for the city to work in a factory.”
-- Bernie TaupinSource : "Bernie Taupin: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 2, 2012.
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“My mother's father taught English literature. When I was about ten or eleven, I could recite Macaulay's 'Lays of Ancient Rome.' While other kids were playing pedestrian war games, I'd be Horatius keeping the bridge.”
-- Bernie TaupinSource : "Bernie Taupin: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 2, 2012.
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“One reason I quit doing interviews after years and years and years was because I was making things up.”
-- Bernie TaupinSource : "Bernie Taupin: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 2, 2012.
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“I am a simple vessel with complex overtones, opinionated on occasions but willing to listen. Comfortable with reclusiveness and devoted to privacy and family. Patriotic to a fault and allergic to cruelty, ignorance and bad music.”
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“Read books, discover the blues and don't Tweet.”
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“Early risers catch the world waking and see its true colors.”
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“Elton John's home is laden with trinkets and books relating to Satanism and witchcraft.”
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“My Mother set me on the right track, Marty Robbins made me want to write songs, and Jesus Christ did the rest.”
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“'Captain Fantastic' was the first album in history to enter the (American) album chart at number one. We did it for a second time after that. Now that's not a boast, that's frightening.”
-- Bernie TaupinSource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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