Elton John Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

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

  Elton John

  Art, Pain, Loneliness

  Song: Candle In The Wind Elton John Bernie Taupin

• She's got electric boots, a mohair suit, you know I read it in a magazine.

  Elton John

  Art, Media, Suits You

  Song: Bennie and The Jets

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

  Elton John

  Art, Distance, Media

  Song: Goodbye Marlon Brando Elton John Bernie Taupin, Album: Reg Strikes Back

• I'm lucky enough and wealthy enough to be able to buy photographs and buy art that inspires me from day to day. I don't want a Picasso on my wall; it's great art, but it's dead art to me. I'd rather have a photograph by someone I've never heard of that really inspires me.

  Elton John

  Art, Wall, Inspire

  "Mylo: Would you ever play Glastonbury? Elton: Oh no - I'm too like the Queen Mother". Interview with Myles 'Mylo' MacInnes, www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2005.

• From the start, I've always admired Eminem's thinking. That's the reason I wanted to appear on the Grammys with him when I was asked. Eminem has the balls to say what he feels and to make offensive things funny. That's very necessary today in America, with people being muzzled and irony becoming a lost art. Artists like Eminem who use their free speech to get a point across are vitally important. There just aren't many people in the world with balls that big and talent that awesome.

  Elton John

  Art, Thinking, America

  "Eminem's Homophobic 'Rap God' Lyrics Spark Media Frenzy". www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 18, 2013.

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