English - Musician | March 25, 1947 -
There's no pressure for me to go out there and say, I've got to have a top 40 hit because it's not going to happen.
Elton John
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When Little Richard used to stand up and play it was just fabulous, and Liberace had the candlesticks and the rings and the gift of the gab. The piano's is the most ungainly rock' n' roll instrument of all time but those two people transcended it, as did Jerry Lee Lewis.
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I grew up at my grandmother's house and she had a beautiful garden. I used to hate mowing the lawn and weeding, which is what you do when you're a kid.
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I grew up conservative because my mum was a conservative, and when I finally realized what conservatives were, I changed my mind immediately.
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I was just genuinely shy. I'd always been a shy kid.
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I just go into the studio, look at the lyrics for the first time when I put them on the piano, and go. If I haven't got it within 40 minutes, I give up. It's never changed, the thrill has never gone, because I don't know what I'm going to get next.
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I'm addicted to working. I mean, I have a list of 100 countries I want to play in. I'm basically killing myself by travelling so much, for no reason whatsoever.
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I've never been jealous of anybody's success. I've been flummoxed by it because I don't understand it, but I'm not jealous of it.
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As a child, as a teenager, I was kind of not allowed to wear fashionable clothes.
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When people go to rehab and come out, they go through a difficult period, but I never had that.
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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.
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I'm very relaxed. I have a family, I have a partner of 20 years, I have a wonderful life; nothing could be better.
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