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.
Interpretation
This quote reflects a deep, enduring passion for music that has remained constant from childhood.
Elton John's quote emphasizes the intrinsic and lasting connection he feels with music since his early years. It illustrates how his childhood experiences of observing and enjoying music have shaped his identity and continued to influence him throughout his life, highlighting the special bond that exists between individuals and their passions.
In practice
In a speech at a music festival.
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?
I hate to say this, but I always listen to the music and the instrumentation first, and then grab on to the lyrics later.
So excuse me forgetting, but these things I do_x000D_ _x000D_ You see I've forgotten, if they're green or they're blue_x000D_ _x000D_ Anyway, the thing is, what I really mean_x000D_ _x000D_ Yours are the sweetest eyes, I've ever seen.
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.
When I was 21 I wanted to write like Kafka. But, unfortunately for me, I wrote like a script editor for The Simpsons who'd briefly joined a religious cult and then discovered Foucault. Such is life.
I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out of all this.
This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.
Poetry allies itself with beauty - a supreme union - but never uses it as its ultimate goal or sole nourishment.
A lot of what making art is, is just being open, and empty. And putting yourself in the right place for things to, literally, come together.
I listen to everything - from Sarah McLachlan and Alanis Morissette all the way down to rap like Scarface, UGK and Lauryn Hill.
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