Elton John Quotes About Songs

Quotes about: Songs

• Don't let the sun go down on me
  Although I search myself, it's always someone else I see
  I'd just allow a fragment of your life to wander free
  But losing everything is like the sun going down on me

  Elton John

  Song, Losing Everything, Sun

  Song: Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me

• It seems to me, sorry seems to be the hardest word.

  Elton John

  Song, Sorry, Hardest

  Song: Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word

• I just sit there and make up songs and sing to [my son] in gibberish. I'm very good at gibberish now.

  Elton John

  Fathers Day, Song, Dad

• It turned out so well because it was the first album that I could identify with in terms of lyrics. ("Captain Fantastic") It was passionate...I could associate myself with every song...It's a unique album in our history. This was the story of us..."Curtains", the lyrics to that are so beautiful because it sums up our friendship so much, and our relationship.

  Elton John

  Beautiful, Song, Unique

• So excuse me forgetting, but these things I do
  You see I've forgotten, if they're green or they're blue
  Anyway, the thing is, what I really mean
  Yours are the sweetest eyes, I've ever seen.

  Elton John

  Song, Mean, Eye

  Song: Your Song, Album: Rocket Man

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

  Elton John

  Running, Song, Ocean

  Song: The One Elton John Bernie Taupin, Album: The One

• I've reached the stage of my life where learning is so important to me. I go through the past enough when I play my old songs on stage. And I don't mind doing that. But I want to think about the future.

  Elton John

  Song, Past, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I'm not everybody's cup of tea. But sometimes criticism can be hurtful. Be respectful I'm a good piano player, I can sing well, I write good songs. If you don't like it, fair enough. But give me a break.

  Elton John

  Song, Writing, Player

  "A star is reborn". Interview with Amy Raphael, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2004.

• 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.

  Elton John

  Song, Writing, Sadness

  "A More Reflective Leap On Elton John's 'Diving Board'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 23, 2013.

• 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 [Lady] Gaga or I was on All of the Lights, which was a Kanye West record that managed to get on the radio.

  Elton John

  Song, Writing, Light

  "Elton John confirms film project based on his life" by Matthew Taylor, www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2012.

• If you write great songs with meaning and emotion, they will last for ever because songs are the key to everything.

  Elton John

  Song, Writing, Keys

  "When Elton met Jake". Interview with Jake Shears, www.theguardian.com. August 21, 2006.

• I can't think of anything until I've got printed words in front of me. I never wake up in the middle of the night with a song in my head.

  Elton John

  Song, Night, Thinking

  "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.

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