- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
Elton Quotes
Reflections on a music icon
These Elton quotes touch on Elton John's influence, from inspiring larger-than-life stage personas to being cited as one of the few genuinely cool keyboard players. Explore Great quotes for more.
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- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got to know Elton John's older music by learning to like his newer stuff. 'The Lion King?' That's what I like.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
As much as I love heavy riffs, I like The Eagles, Neil Young, Elton John, Crowded House.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
A rap dude has his rap persona, his hyper version of himself. Do you know Method Man's real name? Or Elton John, Marylin Monroe? You make up this character. That's kind of what we have done with Die Antwoord, playing with characters.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first job was playing 'Nurse 2' in a film by Ben Elton called 'Maybe Baby,' and the first actors I worked with professionally were Hugh Laurie and Joely Richardson. I was totally star-struck. I got that job on my final day of drama school, so it was a nice bridge into the professional world.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been influenced by many different artists at many different stages of my life. Starting out, it was people like Elton John, Billy Joel, Ben Folds, and Fiona Apple. As I got older I got deeper into the work of bands like the Beatles, artists like Sam Cooke, Ray Charles, Etta James, and Joni Mitchell.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's so vacuous, this job. You're constantly looking at pictures of yourself, talking about yourself. Then I come back home, and all my mates want to talk about is me because I've been hanging out with Elton John and stuff.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want the staggeringly wealthy Elton John and his family to represent the standard of gay fatherhood any more than straight people want the stunningly beautiful Angelina Jolie and her family to represent the standard of heterosexual parenthood. Stars are outliers; stars are exceptions.
- Buildings
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did a cake for the 60th birthday of Elton John, for Britney Spears' 27th birthday and for the 'Circus' album she put out - the cake had circus themes. I prepared a cake for a surprise 82nd birthday event for the architect Frank Gehry; the cake was comprised of mini-replicas of his buildings.
- Great Talent
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- Nov 07, 2020
We worked very hard to make the lyrics suit the music. I can't, like Elton John, for example, compose by lyrics. Elton has a great talent for that. Whatever you give him, including your questions, he composes in half an hour and makes a great song out of it.
- Listening
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- Nov 07, 2020
When it comes to songwriting, I grew up in the Seventies listening to AM radio. So I've all these pop songs running through my head from Paul McCartney and Elton John, and a lot of stuff that was written on piano.
- Cool
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been into guitars... we want to put keyboards on, but keyboard players don't look cool onstage, they just keep their heads down. There has never been a cool keyboard player, apart from Elton John.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
I met Elton John at an Interview dinner, and we just sort of became friends. He's got such a wicked sense of humor.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone knows and loves Elton John's music, but the true story of his life is so incredible that it can only be described as a fantasy.
- Growing Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm kind of a dirty guy, a little Bill Laimbeer-ish. Those are the guys I used to watch growing up. I used to watch Karl Malone; now I watch Boozer and Elton Brand and try to emulate those guys as much as possible because those guys are about the same size as me.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Oh, yeah, I've always thought of covering some of my influences like Billy Joel, Elton John, Stevie Wonder.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020