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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. (Elton John)
I'm so proud to be on a Kate Bush record; she's always marched to the beat of her own drum. View quote
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I am so in the past. I'm such a Luddite when it comes to making music. All I can do is write at the piano. View quote
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When I say I don't have to write pop songs anymore, there's no way I'm going to get on the radio at 60 years of age unless I'm doing a duet with Gaga or I was on 'All of the Lights,' which was a Kanye West record that managed to get on the radio. View quote
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I rarely wear tennis shoes. I'm 5' 8', I hate being short. View quote
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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. View quote
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There's a lot of hate in the world. View quote
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As Elton John, my days on pop radio are over, and I know that and I accept it and I'm not unhappy about it. View quote
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I've always been dead set against festivals - really suspicious and wary. View quote
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I tour as many countries as possible, and I've toured every state in America, plus every province in Canada. View quote
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I've always wanted to smash a guitar over someone's head. You just can't do that with a piano. (Elton John)
I've got that resilient thing inside me. But I wasn't a happy bunny. View quote
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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. View quote
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I just go into the studio, look at the lyrics for the first time when I put them on the piano, and go. If I haven't got it within 40 minutes, I give up. It's never changed, the thrill has never gone, because I don't know what I'm going to get next. View quote
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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. View quote
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If I was to say what I am, I'd be a Labour man. I like Tony Blair a lot, I think he's a good man. And in America I'd definitely be a Democrat; I'd never be a Republican. View quote
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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. View quote
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I loathe celebrity. I can't stand it. View quote
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I'm very generous. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. (Elton John)
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. View quote
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They're not "normal" songs. None of her songs have been "normal." She's just who she is, she's unique. She's - a mystery. She's the most beautiful mystery. ... Let me tell you a story: when I had my civil partnership, nine years ago, in 2005, and Kate - we invited Kate, we didn't think she'd come but she came, she came with her husband Danny, and there were a lot of very famous people in that room, there were like 600 people - and all anybody wanted to meet was Kate Bush. I mean, musician, anybody - they couldn't believe Kate Bush was there. She's kind of an enigma. View quote
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