110+ Elton John Quotes On Music, Being Yourself And Flamboyant

Elton John is an English musician, singer, songwriter, composer and record producer. He has sold more than 300 million records, making him one of the best-selling music artists of all time. He has had a career spanning five decades, during which he has won five Grammy Awards, an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award and a Tony Award. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Elton John on life, love, music.

Top 10 Elton John Quotes

1. 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.
2. There's a time for everyone, If they only learn, that the twisting kaleidoscope moves us all in turn.
3. Don't let the sun go down on me Although I search myself, it's always someone else I see I'd just allow a fragment of your life to wander free But losing everything is like the sun going down on me
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. Live for each second without hesitation
7. Sometimes when I’m flying over the Alps I think, 'that’s like all the cocaine I sniffed.'
8. Don't let the sun go down on me.
9. You can cage the songbird, but you can't make her sing. And you can trap the free bird, but you'll have to clip her wings.
10. Welcome to the world of bullshit, my dear. You have arrived.

Elton John Short Quotes

• I just wish more of my fellow queers would come out sometimes. It's nice out here, you know?
• I'm a juvenile product of the working class, who's best friend floats in the bottom of a glass.
• I get high in the evening sniffing pots of glue.
• I've always wanted to smash a guitar over someone's head. You just can't do that with a piano.
• Sometimes you can't see the wood for the trees as an artist.
• And it's one more beer and I don't hear you any more.
• She's got electric boots, a mohair suit, you know I read it in a magazine.
• So shine on through these days we have to fill.
• Tina Turner gave me the highway blues.
• Top dog, top hat, move that muscle, move that fat.

Elton John Quotes About Life

He [Ryan White] had a kind of angelic aura about him. And his family, too, it's like, they are going through all this suffering, and I'm living this "Life of Riley" and I'm complaining about everything, and they are living this horrific life and complaining about nothing. — Elton John

How wonderful life is while you're in the world — Elton John

I hope you don't mind, I hope you don't mind, that I put into words, how wonderful life is, now you're in the world. — Elton John

Rock and roll came in and changed my life and changed the whole music scene forever, and then I grew to love R&B and Motown and all black music, gospel music. But I never dismiss any form of music. I listen to everything. — Elton John

I'm very relaxed. I'm very happy with my personal life. — Elton John

He [Ryan white] spoke to me that my life was out of order. My life was a mess. I had no values anymore. And he was so stoic with his infection. He wasn't bitter. He wasn't angry. He just was a kid. He wanted to go to school and play football, drive his car. And he had no bitterness about him. — Elton John

I've reached the stage of my life where learning is so important to me. I go through the past enough when I play my old songs on stage. And I don't mind doing that. But I want to think about the future. — Elton John

The work became like the drug addiction, the clothes, anything in my life. It became - it's become an addiction. I'm addicted to working. — Elton John

I lived my teenage years in my 20s when I sort of left home and became Elton John success, then it became Elton John excess... Everything I couldn't do when I was younger I did 10 times over. I was having the time of my life. I was becoming the person that I wanted to be. — Elton John

You don't know being a performer what kind of performance you're going to give. You know you can give a certain quality of performance, but as I grow older I'm much more content in my own skin because when I come offstage, I have a balance in my life. — Elton John

Elton John Quotes About Love

I love the way the American trade magazines never give anybody a bad review because they're afraid the advertising will be taken out. It's so hysterical. — Elton John

I really appreciate my performing so much better, as I get older. I don't take it for granted anymore. I really relish it and love it. — Elton John

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. — Elton John

I love football, but I'm sick of the World Cup. I don't even care about England. — Elton John

It was Scotty Moore's guitar riff [in "I Want You, I Need You, I Love You"] when he was doing The Steve Allen Show that got me into rock music. — Elton John

I love to work. It fascinates me. And I love seeing who's coming up, who's got the charisma to last, who's got the intelligence to move on to other things. I'm so glad now that I'm stuck behind the piano, because when you're getting older it's very hard to waddle around the stage. — Elton John

To fight the violence we must be brave, hold on strong to the love God gave. — Elton John

Love's like a junkie, addiction's a fact. Passion's a monkey, you can't keep off your back. — Elton John

Love is the key we must turn, truth is the flame we must burn. — Elton John

I love people who expect me to wear great, feathery costumes- and I do it. It's like an actor getting into his costume for his part. I don't really feel that part until I'm into whatever I'm going to wear. — Elton John

Elton John Quotes About Music

I've been following him since Space Oddity. And I've followed him from all those albums that didn't sell, like The Man Who Sold The World and things like that. Above all, apart from all the glamorous rubbish, the music's there. Ziggy Stardust is a classic album. — Elton John

My mother encouraged me and was very great about me being gay, but she always encouraged me to follow my musical dreams, which I'm very grateful for. — Elton John

For me music is so passionate. I have to give it my all every time I go onstage. — Elton John

I really don't need the public's money. I'd like to have something on the internet with charitable donation optional, where anyone can download my music for free. — Elton John

Nothing should be an issue when it comes to sexuality in the first place. Music is the one artform where people feel comfortable coming out. — Elton John

I want to do a musical movie. Like Evita, but with good music. — Elton John

I still want to play music but I don't want to look like Donald Duck while I'm doing it. — Elton John

It was Elvis that got me interested in music. I've been an Elvis fan since I was a kid. — Elton John

I am such a Luddite when it comes to making music. All I can do is write at the piano. — Elton John

Blue jean baby, LA lady, seamstress for the band. Pretty eyed, pirate smile, you'll marry a music man. Ballerina, you must have seen her dancing in the sand. — Elton John

Elton John Quotes About People

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. — Elton John

Once you have people around you who don't question you, you're in a dangerous place. — Elton John

It's awful to be afraid of sex, but I'm afraid that's what the '50s did to people. It was just sex is disgusting, it shouldn't be talked about. Nudity is disgusting, we just don't talk about those kinds of things. — 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 used to take hostages in my relationships and not let people be independent. It always ended in disaster, because you take away people's identity and they end up full of resentment. — Elton John

In the '50s you weren't taught about sex whatsoever. It was never just talked about. People used to snoop behind their curtains and look at the neighbors. And if a girl became pregnant in your part of the world, she was shipped off to the countryside. — Elton John

I mean, in some cases with libel laws, you know, they can write things about people who have no course of action, because they can't afford to take legal action against them. — Elton John

I've been going to Russia since 1979. I've been going quite frequently, and I've always had a wonderful rapport with the Russian audiences and with the Russian people. — Elton John

People who mock rap and say, "I don't like it," they should go and check out Kanye [West] in the studio rapping, or Marshall, Eminem, when he's in the studio. It's a phenomenon. Don't knock it until you've seen it. It may not be your cup of tea, but don't ridicule it. — Elton John

But until we get rid of that shame, then people are going to stay underground, they are not going to get tested, and we're facing an uphill battle [with AIDS]. — Elton John

Elton John Famous Quotes And Sayings

I don't think you can recreate anything from the past. You can not do it. If you're going to go out and imitate a Motown sound, you can't do it, it's impossible because of the studios and players involved and the atmosphere. — Elton John

Sweet freedom whispered in my ear, you're a butterfly, and butterflies are free to fly, fly away, high-away, bye-bye. — Elton John

The Backstreet Boys can sing their asses off. I'm not so sure about those other boy bands. But Backstreet Boys have my ultimate respect. — Elton John

It was also great to have the Backstreet Boys appear on stage with me because I have gotten to know them all a little bit just recently, and not only are they great performers, but they also very hard working professionals and really nice guys. — Elton John

George W. Bush was passionate about AIDS. And we had a 10-minute talk at the interval of a concert at the Kennedy Center about AIDS. And I was astonished about how well-informed he was and his commitment to AIDS. And so it's the typical thing of don't judge a book by its cover until you have read the book. — Elton John

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. — 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

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?' — Elton John

I'm glad I've given up drugs and alcohol. It would be awful to be like Keith Richards. He's pathetic. It's like a monkey with arthritis, trying to go onstage and look young. — Elton John

So I am deeply saddened and shocked over the current legislation that is now in place against the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community here in Russia. In my opinion, it is inhumane and it is isolating. — Elton John

I've got to do something to make up for all those self-absorbed and selfish years when I just, you know, was taking drugs, sitting in my room, doing bad things, whatever. — Elton John

After claws and feathers, he took skin and bone, shaped it like an hour glass and made the angels moan. — Elton John

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? — Elton John

So excuse me forgetting, but these things I do You see I've forgotten, if they're green or they're blue Anyway, the thing is, what I really mean Yours are the sweetest eyes, I've ever seen. — Elton John

I just sit there and make up songs and sing to [my son] in gibberish. I'm very good at gibberish now. — Elton John

Don't be afraid to let her into your heart and when your down, don't try to carry the whole world on your shoulders. — Elton John

I think that's the graveyard of musicians, playing cabaret. I think I'd rather be dead than work in cabaret. It's just so depressing. — Elton John

We have come so far. It's become a real bipartisan cause, which I'm very happy to see. And in the case of America, and it's - certainly, without America, we'd be facing catastrophe. — Elton John

They're [[harmaceuticals companies] just making a killing out of people's death. And they're benefiting by people's suffering. And I find that obscene. I find it ridiculous in this day and age, that that would happen. And it took President Clinton to go to rogue pharmaceutical companies to copy the antiretroviral drugs for a fraction of the cost. — Elton John

He'd been drinking in a bar downtown, when he thought he heard a choir of angels singing in the Tiki Lounge. And that's when he got religion. — Elton John

...I'm so over the tattoos and the T-shirts and rings through the noses. It's not pretty, it's not pleasant, it's not exciting. Please stop it now. — Elton John

I tried to commit suicide one day. It was a very Woody Allen-type suicide. I turned on the gas and left all the windows open. — Elton John

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. — Elton John

I became successful and within five years conquered the world and had the most amazing run. I had so much momentum and adrenaline going, but then it ends and you have to find what level you're going to be on, how enthusiastic you're going to be. — Elton John

Drunk all the time, feeling fine on elderberry wine. — Elton John

Rocket Man, burning out his fuse up here alone. — Elton John

I'm enjoying everything in my life, but I think the element of surprise in show business is what makes us really love it, because one day you're sitting by the phone waiting to do something or not doing anything, and the next day you've got the chance of a lifetime. Those little phone calls don't come up so often, but when they come up, it's fantastic. — Elton John

I don't want to spend the rest of my life talking about when I used to drink or when I used to take drugs. I'm more interested in the future. — Elton John

I'll even pay sometimes for a woman that's ugly. — Elton John

And the stigma hasn't really changed that much in 31 years. You are still getting people - it's a shame-based disease. It's based on sexual transmission. And it's still shame-based. And until people feel strong enough and feel loved enough to actually open up and say, listen, I'm HIV-positive, then we are facing an uphill battle. — Elton John

Ever since I had that interview in which I said I was bisexual it seems twice as many people wave at me in the streets. — Elton John

People still think of AIDS as a shame-based disease, it's a sexually transmitted disease, and you're either gay or you're a prostitute or an intravenous drug user. And so a lot of people are still very bigoted about this disease. It's such a treatable disease. It's so - the end is in sight for this disease, medically. — Elton John

What record companies do these days is drain the blood dry of an album, take six singles off it, and harm the longevity of artists' careers by doing it. — Elton John

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. — Elton John

People in England are so bloody nosy. — Elton John

Like a candle in the wind, never knowing who to cling to until the rain set it. — Elton John

Don't shoot me, I'm just the piano player! — Elton John

I was incredibly confident on stage because that's where I loved to be. But offstage, there was no balance. I was a little shy kid that went onstage. And I always said, cocaine was the drug that made me open up. I could talk to people. But then it became the drug that closed me down. So it started out by making me talk to everyone, and then ended up by me isolating myself alone with it; which is the end of the world, really. — Elton John

My old man is drunker than a barrel full of monkeys, but my old lady she don't care. — Elton John

Children are extremely important. They are the future of the world. — Elton John

And we have come so far like that. I mean, the advances on the medication side have been enormous, and the advances on the human side have been enormous. But we still have this stigma to get rid of, and then we really will be able to see the light at the end of the tunnel. — Elton John

Loneliness was tough, the toughest role you ever played. Hollywood created a superstar, and pain was the price you paid. — Elton John

I spent the last week of Ryan's life in Indiana, Indianapolis, with Jeanne and Andrea, Jeanne, his mother, Andrea, his sister, and some other beautiful people who came. And it taught me a lesson. — Elton John

I want a love that don't mean a thing. — Elton John

I'm cold as a razor blade, inches from madness. — Elton John

Some kneel and lie to God. — Elton John

You know, no one should be marginalized in society when it comes to health. And, you know, we have - as a foundation, we have tried to champion those people [sex workers, needle users, intravenous drug users, prostitutes] and be by - be by their side and say, listen, these people cannot be forgotten. If you forget about them, then the disease is never going to go away. — Elton John

But we came for the Kennedy Center Awards, which was an incredible honor. Being a British person, I was bestowed this honor. And my partner and I, David, came. And we were so pleasantly surprised by George Bush and his knowledge of AIDS. He really - he treated David and I - and Laura - treated us like - they were so friendly and so courteous. — Elton John

I'd walk a million miles to give her what she needs. But she would walk a million more to do what she believes. — Elton John

It's so easy to write songs about misery and hard times and sadness. It's much more difficult to write songs about happy and chirpy stuff. — Elton John

I was sitting in the classroom trying to look intelligent in case the teacher looked at me. — Elton John

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. — Elton John

I can't think of anything until I've got printed words in front of me. I never wake up in the middle of the night with a song in my head. — Elton John

I don't have a computer. I am the Luddite of rock'n'roll, I don't have a portable phone. I write things down. — Elton John

It'll take you a couple of vodka and tonics to set you on your feet again. — Elton John

My sex drive has gone down so much since I've stopped doing coke. I was one of the few people that, when I did coke, I had an enormous sex drive. I still have a healthy sex life today, but it's not so important. — Elton John

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'. — Elton John

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

It's much too late to save myself from falling. — Elton John

Onstage it was always comfortable for me because that's where I felt at home. Offstage it was a different situation. I was still shy offstage and unfortunately, my shyness and my inability to communicate and really have great conversations or be part of the gang - in inverted commas - led me to the drug addiction, which, you know, blighted my life for 16 years because I thought by doing that it would make me join in. — Elton John

Anyone who lip-synchs in public on stage when you pay 75 pounds to see them should be shot. — Elton John

Don't show up around here until your social worker's helped. — Elton John

Your eyes have died, but you see more than I. — Elton John

When stars collide, like you and I, no shadow blocks the sun" - The One — Elton John

I can't talk about - as eloquently as everyone else about a prevention or medicine or, you know, funding, but I can talk about the human element, which is the main part of AIDS, because it comes to the human being and how they are being treated, what medicines they are on and what medicines they are not on. — Elton John

I’ll not complain about your boring life, if you just leave me to mine — Elton John

If there's a God in heaven, what's he waiting for? If He can't hear the children, then he must see the war. — Elton John

Life Lessons by Elton John

1. Elton John has taught us to never give up on our dreams, no matter how hard the journey may be. He has shown us that it is possible to overcome any obstacle and achieve success.
2. He has also taught us the importance of staying true to ourselves, no matter what society may think. He has been a beacon of hope for those who feel like they don't fit in.
3. Finally, Elton John has shown us the power of music and how it can be used to bring people together and spread joy and love. He has used his music to make a positive impact on the world.