G.R. Elton Quotes

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

Take me to the pilot of your soul.

At heart I've always been a music fan. That part of me has never changed since I was a little kid, sitting in a room watching a record go round, looking at the colour of the labels.

I don't want a Jennifer Lopez wedding or anything like that. A commitment ceremony would be a nice thing to do.

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.

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

Laughing like children, living like lovers, rolling like thunder, under the covers, and I guess that's why they call it the blues.

It's like trying to drink whisky from a bottle of wine.

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

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.

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

An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make.

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.

I'm very relaxed. I'm very happy with my personal life.

I have a much better relationship with the press than I did, I think because I stood my ground.

I've had my fills of cocaine and pills.

I used to get my money at the end of the week, buy my mum something, or buy a record, and that was it.

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.

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.

I'm the Connie Francis of rock 'n' roll.

Chefs aren't celebrities: they're chefs.

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.

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.

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.

I'm the ultimate record fan. I still go out and buy records.

Someone saved my life tonight, sugar bear, you almost had your hooks in me, didn't you dear?

I'm not bored with my life. I'm not just making the records and touring, I would find that boring.

I've watched other people singing, I've become a much better singer. I've become a singer that plays the piano instead of a piano player that sings.

The only thing the record companies put out now is 'Best of,'

It's getting late have you seen my mates, Ma tell me when the boys get here, It's seven o'clock and I want to rock, Want to get a belly full of beer...

Tina Turner gave me the highway blues.

I’ve never had a writer’s block, but still I think: Is it going to happen this time? You never know what you’re going to get; you just put your fingers on the keys and hope.

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

A couple of sounds that I really like are the sounds of a switchblade and a motor bike.

No tears to damn you when jealousy burns.

Poor cow, you'll get your dumb man. You'll see your whole life coming at you in the back of his hand.

When a rumor doesn't go away it's not a rumor

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.

I don't whistle at you down the street. I would if I could, but I can't whistle you see.

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

I saw you dancing out the ocean Running fast along the sand A spirit born of earth and water Fire flying from your hands

You get the same equal rights that we do when we have a civil partnership. Heterosexual people get married. We can have civil partnerships.

This overload is edging me further out to sea, I need to put some distances between overkill and me.

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

I had a little Richard and that black piano, oh that sweet Georgia Peach, and the boy form Tupelo.

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

Holy Moses, let us live in peace. Let us strive to find a way to make all hatred cease. There's a man over there, what's his colour I don't care, he's my brother, let us live in peace.

Well, I quit those days and my redneck ways.

I was ready to approach her with my English charm, when her brass knuckled boyfriend grabbed me by the arm.

Top dog, top hat, move that muscle, move that fat.