Music Quotes

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

I've been going to Russia since 1979. I've been going quite frequently, and I've always had a wonderful rapport with the Russian audiences and with the Russian people.

I do like Britney Spears. I think she's cute. I think she's fun. And I like her records. You know, I'm not a pop snob whatsoever. I think she makes great pop records.

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.

I lived my teenage years in my 20s when I sort of left home and became Elton John success, then it became Elton John excess... Everything I couldn't do when I was younger I did 10 times over. I was having the time of my life. I was becoming the person that I wanted to be.

You were my strength when I was weak; you were my voice when I couldn't speak; you were my eyes when I couldn't see; you saw the best there was in me; lifted me up when I couldn't reach, you gave me faith cuz you believed. I'm everything I am because you loved me

When you're a parent, you sing better. It becomes a pure pleasure, rather than something I have to do.

I don't just sing for free. It's my work. You're paid for what you do. And I work hard.

The first song that I ever recorded was written by my mother.

I will perform My Heart Will Go On for the rest of my life and it will always remain a very emotional experience for me.

You've been my inspiration, through the lies you were the truth. My world is a better place because of you.

I have records in gold, in platinum, I have two Oscars, I have Grammys and so on.

I have shared my whole life. My private and my show business life. It helps me actually to feel my songs and to go on with my dreams.

When I hear something that comes from me that makes me fall down off my chair, it's not often.

I don't listen to my own music at home.

Tonight, I would like to pay tribute to the greatest entertainer of all time, Mr. Elvis Presley. Elvis was Las Vegas. And if it wasn't for him, so many performers like myself would not have the chance to do what we do in this town. He really was the king.

For me, singing was real life, not two plus two equals four.

It's not hard to do a show; it's hard to cancel a show.

My voice was the conductor of my life.

Music rearranges your molecular structure.