Elton John

I'm still standing, better than I ever did.

Sir Elton Hercules John CBE (born 25 March 1947) is an English pop/rock singer, composer and pianist.

Sourced

• People should be very free with sex, but they should draw the line at goats.
  • 1976 interview with Rolling Stone magazine[1]

• It's very important to have two tiaras when you're on the road, you never know when you'll be invited to something really formal.
  • Elton John[2]

• Welcome to the world of bullshit my dear. You have arrived.
  • Advice to a young John Mayer, when Mayer was first attacked in the tabloids
  • Young, Richard (July 19, 2007) "John Mayer MSM Interview, v.2007" MyStupidMouth.com Retrieved July 25, 2007.

• The internet has stopped people from going out and being with each other, creating stuff. Instead they sit at home and make their own records, which is sometimes OK but it doesn’t bode well for long-term artistic vision. It’s just a means to an end. We’re talking about things that are going to change the world and change the way people listen to music and that’s not going to happen with people blogging on the internet. I mean, get out there, communicate. Hopefully the next movement in music will tear down the internet. Let’s get out in the streets and march and protest instead of sitting at home and blogging. I do think it would be an incredible experiment to shut down the whole internet for five years and see what sort of art is produced over that span. There’s too much technology available. I’m sure, as far as music goes, it would be much more interesting than it is today.
  • Elton John, blaming the internet for destroying good music [3]

• Sometimes when I'm flying over the Alps I think, 'that's like all the cocaine I sniffed. [4]

• Chefs aren't celebrities: they're chefs.
  • Ridiculing the idea of "celebrity chefs"; quoted in the Evening Standard, Tue 1 May 2012, p.16

Lyrics

• And it seems to me you lived your life like a candle in the wind.
  • Candle in the Wind

• Goodbye England's rose, may you never grow old in our hearts.
  • Candle in the Wind, song tribute to Princess Diana

• I'm still standing, better than I ever did.
  • I'm Still Standing

• Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting.
  • Song title

• And you can tell everybody, this is your song.
  • Your Song

• I'm a Rocket Man
  • Rocket Man

• You're gonna hear electric music, solid walls of sound
  • Bennie and the Jets

• Turn The Lights Out When You Leave
  • Song title (Peachtree Road)

Jump Up! (1982)

• He must have been a gardener that cared a lot
  Who weeded out the tears and grew a good crop
  But now it all looks strange, it's funny how one insect
  Can damage so much grain.
  • "Empty Garden (Hey Hey Johnny)", his song dedicated to John Lennon

• And we are so amazed, we're crippled and we're dazed
  A gardener like that one, no one can replace.

  And I've been knocking but no one answers
  And I've been knocking most all the day
  Oh, and I've been calling
  Oh, "Hey, Hey, Johnny"
  Can't you come out to play?

  • "Empty Garden (Hey Hey Johnny)"

Elton John on other people

• He is Mr Piano Man, I am Miss Piano Man.
  • Elton John on touring with Billy Joel[[5]]

• There just aren't many people in the world with balls that big and talent that awesome.
  • After performing with Eminem at the 2001 Grammy awards[[6]]

• I cold still snort you under the table.
  • To Lily Allen at 2008 GQ awards.

Lyrics Sourced

• You and your oven are capable of great things / Remember, no two ovens are the same.
  • From the song Conventional Oven Thermostat [7]