"I have an optimistic view of everything. You have to, otherwise you'd go nuts."

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Source : "A Q&A With Elton John". Billboard Interview, www.billboard.com. November 16, 2004.

Elton John

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“He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. it had to be some silly little Communist.”
“If a boxer ever went as crazy as Nijinsky all the wowsers in the world would be screaming 'punch-drunk.' Well, who hit Nijinsky? And why isn't there a campaign against ballet? It gives girls thick legs”
“Every one must be struck with astonishment, when he first beholds one of these vast rings of coral-rock, often many leagues in diameter, here and there surmounted by a low verdant island with dazzling white shores, bathed on the outside by the foaming breakers of the ocean, and on the inside surrounding a calm expanse of water, which, from reflection, is of a bright but pale green color.”
“We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a culture that's really entertainment-based.”
“What is the Absolute? Something that appears to us in fleeting experiences--say, through the gentle smile of a beautiful woman, or even through the warm caring smile of a person who may otherwise seem ugly and rude. In such miraculous but extremely fragile moments, another dimension transpires through our reality. As such, the Absolute is easily corroded;it slips all too easily through our fingers and must be handled as carefully as a butterfly”
“Denver is a city that will be far more defined by its future than its past.”
“Im like a man whos been half-asleep all his life, trying to find out what he was like before he woke up.”

Source : Daniel Keyes (2007). “Flowers for Algernon”, p.82, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“The position of the planetary bodies at the moment of birth is a musical score done in planetary symbols of the heavenly harmonics and dissonances as these are played into the life of the incarnating ego.”

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