"If you write great songs with meaning and emotion, they will last for ever because songs are the key to everything."

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Source : "When Elton met Jake". Interview with Jake Shears, www.theguardian.com. August 21, 2006.

Elton John

#Song Quotes #Writing Quotes #Keys Quotes

“I want to run the beach's length, because it never ends.”

Source : Deborah Ager, “The Space Coast”
“Also, there are seats in the diner that always fall off the table. If you have a scene where you're packing up at the end of the day and putting them on the table, they just slide off.”
“I feel like the live record thing is something that I've been getting used to as the years go by and with this being my second one, I'm continuing to learn what works and what doesn't work. A live record is an example of that authenticity and that realness that you find in imperfection and you can hear that in this record.”
“OK, Rule number 1: Unless you're served in a frosted glass, never come within 4 feet of my lips.”
“We disapprove of state education. Then the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We object to a state religion. Then the socialists say that we want no religion at all. We object to a state-enforced equality. Then they say that we are against equality. And so on, and so on. It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain.”

Source : Frederic Bastiat (2006). “The Law”, p.30, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.
“No one will die if they don't know how old I am.”
“I am not the first player to have sworn on TV and I won't be the last.”
“The trouble with an alarm clock is that what seems sensible when you set it seems absurd when it goes off”

Source : Rex Stout (2010). “Three at Wolfe's Door”, p.177, Crimeline

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