Top 70 Elton John Quotes

I have no one to leave the money to. I’m a single man. I like spending my money.

I never thought of myself as being handsome or good-looking or whatever. I always felt like an outsider.

I mean, Sting is one of my great buddies and I love him to death.

I’m not everybody’s cup of tea. But sometimes criticism can be hurtful. Be respectful. I’m a good piano player, I can sing well, I write good songs. If you don’t like it, fair enough. But give me a break.

I rarely wear tennis shoes. I’m 5′ 8′, I hate being short.

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.

And there’s no guarantee that if you get HIV and you take these triple therapies, or whatever comes along next, that they’re going to be successful for you.

The whole point of being in this business and being blessed and being successful is that you’re able to do things for your friends or your family, which means that they can have something special in their lives, too.

Well, I’ve had my fair share in Britain of battling the tabloids.

Fame attracts lunatics.

There’s no pressure for me to go out there and say, I’ve got to have a top 40 hit because it’s not going to happen.

I’ve always been dead set against festivals – really suspicious and wary.

I don’t have to compete in the charts. I can just be myself as a musician, a songwriter and play with the musicians that I really love.

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.

I used to get my money at the end of the week, buy my mum something, or buy a record, and that was it.

I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens. I can not bear gardening, but I love gardens.

When people go to rehab and come out, they go through a difficult period, but I never had that.

I went to a mixed school and I can’t remember being bullied at school, ever. I was quite large, in those days. Usually, if you’re going to be a bully, you’ll pick on someone who is small. I didn’t bully anybody, and I don’t remember being bullied.

I’ve got that resilient thing inside me. But I wasn’t a happy bunny.

I’ve always wanted to smash a guitar over someone’s head. You just can’t do that with a piano.

Bands today have to learn their craft by putting the hard work in that we did when we were young performers.

I never really made a full album in Los Angeles before.

I love the idea of the teachings of Jesus Christ and the beautiful stories about it, which I loved in Sunday school and I collected all the little stickers and put them in my book. But the reality is that organised religion doesn’t seem to work. It turns people into hateful lemmings and it’s not really compassionate.

I hate to say this, but I always listen to the music and the instrumentation first, and then grab on to the lyrics later.

There’s a lot of hate in the world.

I’ve had an amazing professional life, personal life, but at 64 to have a son who gives us that much love and enjoyment is, wow!

Who really needs a new album from me?

I’m addicted to working. I mean, I have a list of 100 countries I want to play in. I’m basically killing myself by travelling so much, for no reason whatsoever.

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.

I’m very relaxed. I have a family, I have a partner of 20 years, I have a wonderful life; nothing could be better.

I grew up conservative because my mum was a conservative, and when I finally realized what conservatives were, I changed my mind immediately. As children, we tend to copy our parents.

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.

I’m very generous.

Because, I figured that, because I was a successful man, I was wealthy, I was, you know, seemingly intelligent – even that I am not intelligent enough to ask for help.

I grew up conservative because my mum was a conservative, and when I finally realized what conservatives were, I changed my mind immediately.

An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make.

And I trusted someone to look after me on the business side of life.

I’ve only been interested in the artistic side of life.

I have a lot of money stashed away, but I do live my life from day to day.

But you know, I have a pretty good relationship with the press and the paparazzi. It’s just when they step over the line that, you know, enough’s enough.

I heard Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis, and that was it. I didn’t ever want to be anything else. I just started banging away and semi-studied classical music at the Royal Academy of Music but sort of half-heartedly.

The thing about Vegas is, I don’t have to fly anywhere, and that really helps. It means I stay in one place for three weeks at a time instead of flying backwards and forwards.

I have a much better relationship with the press than I did, I think because I stood my ground.

I grew up at my grandmother’s house, and she had a beautiful garden. I used to hate mowing the lawn and weeding, which is what you do when you’re a kid. I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens.

Well, I’m a huge fan of Ryan Adams, who’s from North Carolina. And he’s beginning to break really quite big.

Jesus wanted us to be loving and forgiving.

I’m a very wealthy man.

And I’m afraid, in this day and age, trust, which I count so, you know, I love loyalty. I love trust.

At heart I’ve always been a music fan. That part of me has never changed since I was a little kid, sitting in a room watching a record go round, looking at the colour of the labels.

And the danger is – and it’s happening – is we’re seeing an incredibly big rise amongst young gay people, young heterosexual people as far as catching HIV, which is, you know, in an educated country like this or in Britain, it’s frightening.

I loathe celebrity. I can’t stand it.

I’d always lived with people – my family, or had people living with me, because I’d never liked being on my own.

I am the most well-known homosexual in the world.

I do work a lot. I mean, most of my income, I would say, comes from live performances. And then you’ve got publishing, you’ve got record royalties.

I think performers are all show-offs anyway, especially musicians. Unless you show off, you’re not going to get noticed.

Yeah. I have been with David Furnish for eight years, now.

The great thing about rock and roll is that someone like me can be a star.

The great thing about small children is they’re portable, so we take them everywhere, but when it comes to 2015, Zachary’s going to school, and I want to be there to drop him off and pick him up. I don’t want to just be the father who reads them a bedtime story.

I’m a great lover of children. I never thought that one day I’d actually be a father, but I’m very pleased that I changed my mind. Children are extremely important. They are the future of the world.

The worst thing you can do to a child, and I’ve seen it happen so many times, is the silver spoon.

My mum always used to buy a record every Friday.

I grew up at my grandmother’s house and she had a beautiful garden. I used to hate mowing the lawn and weeding, which is what you do when you’re a kid.

If there is a better singer in England than Craig David, then I am Margaret Thatcher.

Well, I was making a record, and I had to choose a name, because they said, you know, you can’t make a record under the name of Reg Dwight, because it’s never going to – you know, it’s not attractive enough.

I’m lucky enough and wealthy enough to be able to buy photographs and buy art that inspires me from day to day. I don’t want a Picasso on my wall; it’s great art, but it’s dead art to me. I’d rather have a photograph by someone I’ve never heard of that really inspires me.

I’ve got a great collection of photography.

Once I’d heard ‘Modern Times’ by Bob Dylan, it really changed the way I wanted to make records.

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.

And I talked to my doctor, and I must admit, you know, I’m sometimes quite renowned for my outbursts and I was just very frustrated, maybe a little frightened.

When Little Richard used to stand up and play it was just fabulous, and Liberace had the candlesticks and the rings and the gift of the gab. The piano’s is the most ungainly rock’ n’ roll instrument of all time but those two people transcended it, as did Jerry Lee Lewis.