The Best Quotes Of Elton John

Dedicated to the wonderful, inspiring, silly, and remarkable things Elton John has said over the years.

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“I don’t know, he’s kind of like a brother, a special kind of brother that’s not a friend, that’s something more than a friend. I kind of feel attached. I kind of feel like we were Siamese twins that got cut down the middle.”

1988, about Bernie Taupin

Elton has his eyes closed the entire time he’s speaking.

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“I cry when I sing this song, because I was in love with Bernie, not in a sexual way, but because he was the person I was looking for my entire life, my little soulmate. We’d come so far, and we were still very naive. I was gay by that time and he was married, but he was a person that, more than anything, I loved, and the relationship we had was so odd, because it was not tied at the hip. Thank God it wasn’t tied at the hip, because we wouldn’t have lasted. That relationship is the most important relationship of my entire life.”

About “We All Fall In Love Sometimes,” Rolling Stone, 2013

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“Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.”

2006

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“I love misery. ‘Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word’ is so much more enjoyable to sing in a way than ‘Sad Songs (Say So Much).’”

2017

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“[Goodbye Yellow Brick Road] was a very exciting time in my life. It was a time that we had no fear, nothing was beyond us. It’s a wonderful thing the young have when they get on a roll. We were running on momentum and adrenaline. And then if you're a talented enough artist, you find your place within the playing field. And this was our example of being at the height of our creative powers.”

2014

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“I didn’t even know what a joint was when I made Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. That all changed when I made the next record, but in 1973 I was very naïve. And the naiveté is the most pleasant thing about this record, probably.”

2014

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“I’ve been called everything else, so why not Captain Fantastic?”

1975/1976

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“Reg Dwight doesn’t exactly sound like the world’s number one crooner, so I wanted to pick something that sounded a little bit more romantic. Reg wasn’t it for me.”

1975/1976

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“Oh, goody-goody gumdrops, I got four albums. Yippee.”

1971

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Interviewer: “I haven’t received a present from you yet.”

EJ: “I gave you a kiss backstage for the champagne. What more do you want, Russell?”

Interviewer: “I don’t want the world to know about it.”

1974

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“All the people on health foods look like they’re about to drop dead.”

1974

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“What a head dick.”

1991

Comedy interview with Rowan Atkinson.

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“If there’s one thing in the world I’m frightened of, it’s frogs because they leap and you don’t know where they’re going to leap.”

1974

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“With people like that [Mae West] who are legends who you never think in your whole life you have a chance of meeting—Groucho Marx, for example, is another one—you just sit there and let them carry on because you can’t say anything because they’re so interesting and the stories they’ve got to tell are just fantastic.”

1974

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“It’s best to enjoy things because, as I said, tomorrow I could be knocked over by a car.”

1974

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EJ: “I really like eccentricity.”

Interviewer: “Like being interviewed in the bath?”

1973

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“I just get terribly bored with my hair. Why can’t you have yellow hair, and green hair? I’m a bit crazy like that. It’ll be a different color next week, probably.”

1973