Bernie Taupin Quotes

Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets.

Bernie Taupin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: May 22, 1950

Topics

PoetryInsultRealCallLyrics

When you live in an environment where you aren't allowed to be fully who you are, you aren't taken seriously, and you aren't respected. What that actually does to a person's confidence and psyche is really fascinating to me.

Andre Holland

ConfidenceLiveMeEnvironmentYou

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

Ann Landers

WorkHard WorkPeopleOpportunities

Generally, when I come to festivals, I just wander freely and see what happens.

St. Lucia

FestivalsWanderSeeComeJust

I often forget that I'm a little person. It's the physical environment and society that remind me.

Sinead Burke

MeSocietyEnvironmentPersonForget

I wanted to write a song about war and that classic 'We want you' recruitment style from the point of view of the recruiter.

Troye Sivan

StyleWarSongViewYouWant

There is a measure needing courage to adopt and enforce it, which I believe to be of virtue sufficient to redeem the nation in this its darkest hour: one only; I know of no other to which we may rationally trust for relief from impending dangers without and within.

Robert Dale Owen

CourageTrustBelieveMeasureKnow

Commercials were too phony for me. I just didn't like selling products I didn't believe in.

River Phoenix

MeBelieveSellingProductsPhony

I don't view our approach as negative. I view our approach that when you have a candidate in a Republican primary make statements that would make his position to the left of Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama on immigration... we need to bring that out to the people.

Chuck Fleischmann

PeopleNegativeImmigrationViewYou

Number one, it was a chance to thank my parents, because they passed away a couple of years ago. They gave me so much by giving me the opportunity to play soccer, and I wanted to share the story we had together.

Brandi Chastain

OpportunityTogetherParentsMePlay

I don't do lies!

Pixie Lott

Lies

I was always musical - yelling when I was a baby, singing into a brush and singing in the shower.

Susan Boyle

BabySingingAlwaysShowerBrush

Every corny thing that's said about living with nature - being in harmony with the earth, feeling the cycle of the seasons - happens to be true.

Susan Orlean

NatureSeasonsBe TrueEarthLiving

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