Elton John: Trending quotes (page 4)

“There was a time,
I was everything and nothing all in one.
When you found me,
I was feeling like a cloud across the sun.”

Elton John

Something About the Way You Look Tonight
Song lyrics, The Big Picture (1997)

Feeling , Time , Sun

“For each man in his time is Cain
Until he walks along the beach
And sees his future in the water,
A long lost heart within his reach.”

Elton John

The One
Song lyrics, The One (1992)

Water , Time , Future , Heart

“While Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters,
Sons of bankers, sons of lawyers
Turn around and say good morning to the night.
For unless they see the sky,
But they can't and that is why
They know not if it's dark outside or light.”

Elton John

Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters
Song lyrics, Honky Château (1972)

Light , Madness , Night

“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

Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me
Song lyrics, Caribou (1974)

Life , Search , Sun

“Hey Nikita is it cold
In your little corner of the world?
You could roll around the globe
And never find a warmer soul to know.Oh I saw you by the wall,
Ten of your tin soldiers in a row.
With eyes that looked like ice on fire,
The human heart a captive in the snow.”

Elton John

Nikita
Song lyrics, Ice on Fire (1985)

World , Soul , Heart

“People should be very free with sex, but they should draw the line at goats.”

Elton John

from 1976 interview with Rolling Stone magazine
Sixty things for Sir Elton's 60th (2007)

People , Sex , Drawing

“And you can cage the songbird,
But you can't make her sing.
And you can trap the free bird,
But you'll have to clip her wings.
`Cause she'll soar like a hawk when she flies,
But she'll dive like an eagle when she dies.”

Elton John

Cage the Songbird, written by Elton John, Bernie Taupin, and Davey Johnstone
Song lyrics, Blue Moves (1976)

Bird , Singing

“For this dark and lonely room
Projects a shadow cast in gloom.
And my eyes are mirrors
Of the world outside.
Thinking of the way
That the wind can turn the tide.
And these shadows turn
From purple into grey.”

Elton John

Skyline Pigeon
Song lyrics, Empty Sky (1969)

World , Way , Thinking

“But oh how it feels so real,
Lying here with no one near.
Only you and you can't hear me
When I say softly, slowly.Hold me closer tiny dancer,
Count the headlights on the highway.
Lay me down in sheets of linen,
You had a busy day today.”

Elton John

Tiny Dancer
Song lyrics, Madman Across the Water (1971)

Feeling , Lying , Business

“You may not believe it,
But I don't believe in miracles anymore.
And when I think about it,
I don't believe I ever did for sure.
All the things I've said in songs,
All the purple prose you bought from me.
Reality's just black and white.
The sentimental things I'd write
Never meant that much to me.”

Elton John

This Train Don't Stop There Anymore
Song lyrics, Songs from the West Coast (2001)

Thinking , Reality

“In the quiet silent seconds I turned off the light switch
And I came down to meet you in the half light the moon left.
While a cluster of night jars sang some songs out of tune,
A mantle of bright light shone down from a room.”

Elton John

Come Down in Time
Song lyrics, Tumbleweed Connection (1970)

Light , Night

“We'll kill the fatted calf tonight, so stick around,
You're gonna hear electric music, solid walls of sound.”

Elton John

Bennie and the Jets
Song lyrics, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (1973)

Music

“Yeah I'm gonna kill myself,
Get a little headline news.
I'd like to see what the papers say
On the state of teenage blues.”

Elton John

I Think I'm Going to Kill Myself
Song lyrics, Honky Château (1972)

“There just aren't many people in the world with balls that big and talent that awesome.”

Elton John

After performing with Eminem at the 2001 Grammy awards
Sixty things for Sir Elton's 60th (2007)

People , World

“And he said grow some funk of your own amigo,
Grow some funk of your own.
We no like to with the gringo fight,
But there might be a death in Mexico tonight
If you can't grow some funk of your own amigo.”

Elton John

Grow Some Funk of Your Own, written by Elton John, Bernie Taupin, and Davey Johnstone
Song lyrics, Rock of the Westies (1975)

Death , Fight

“And he shall be Levon,
And he shall be a good man.
And he shall be Levon,
In tradition with the family plan.
And he shall be Levon,
And he shall be a good man.
He shall be Levon.”

Elton John

Levon
Song lyrics, Madman Across the Water (1971)

Family

“"Wuthering Heights" was not your normal type song — but that's why it was so brilliant. It was something out the norm. When something like that comes along, they don’t come along that often.
When does the next Kate Bush come along, after Kate Bush? There hasn’t been one.”

Elton John

The Kate Bush Story (2014)

“And I want you to be my acrobat, I want you to be my lover.
Oh there were others who would treat you cruel,
But oh Jeannie, I will always be your fool.”

Elton John

Little Jeannie, written by Elton John and Gary Osborne
Song lyrics, 21 at 33 (1980)

Fools , Lovers

“You could never know what it's like
Your blood like winter freezes just like ice
And there's a cold lonely light that shines from you
You'll wind up like the wreck you hide behind that mask you use”

Elton John

Source: Song I'm Still Standing

Light , Winter

“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

Source: Song Your Song

Forgetting