I hate to say this, but I always listen to the music and the instrumentation first, and then grab on to the lyrics later.
Interpretation
This quote expresses the priority of appreciating music and instrumentation before focusing on lyrics.
Elton John's quote highlights the importance he places on the musical elements of a song over its lyrics. It suggests that the emotional and aesthetic experience of music is often more immediate and powerful, with lyrics serving as a secondary aspect that can be appreciated later. This perspective encourages listeners to value the artistry in composition and sound as a foundational experience in music.
In practice
In a music appreciation class, when discussing the elements of a song.
I don't want to be married. I'm very happy with a civil partnership. If gay people want to get married, or get together, they should have a civil partnership. The word 'marriage,' I think, puts a lot of people off. You get the same equal rights that we do when we have a civil partnership. Heterosexual people get married. We can have civil partnerships.
I just wish more of my fellow queers would come out sometimes. It's nice out here, you know?
At heart I've always been a music fan. That part of me has never changed since I was a little kid, sitting in a room watching a record go round, looking at the colour of the labels.
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Don't be afraid to let her into your heart and when your down, don't try to carry the whole world on your shoulders.
When Little Richard used to stand up and play it was just fabulous, and Liberace had the candlesticks and the rings and the gift of the gab. The piano's is the most ungainly rock' n' roll instrument of all time but those two people transcended it, as did Jerry Lee Lewis.
A picture is nothing but a bridge between the soul of the artist and that of the spectator.
There’s a real question as to what beauty is and why it’s important to us. Many pseudo-philosophers try to answer these questions and tell us they’re not really answerable. I draw on art and literature, and music in particular, because music is a wonderful example of something that’s in this world but not of this world. Great works of music speak to us from another realm even though they speak to us in ordinary physical sounds.
Good design keeps the user happy, the manufacturer in the black and the aesthete unoffended.
I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
I'm not a politician because I'm an artist. Politicians have a very easy answer for a very complicated question. I have a very complicated question for what you consider very easy situations.
The great men of music close periods; they do not inaugurate them. The pioneer work, the finding of new paths, is left to smaller men.
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