Bernie Taupin Quotes
My favorite thing is coming up with titles. The majority of the songs I've every written I've always thought of the title before I've written the song.

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I don't really like to explain my songs.
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Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!
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I love writing songs.
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I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.
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I tend to name albums after one of the songs.
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With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.
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It wasn't easy to get here, and it will not be easy to take my title away from me.
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Every battalion has its marching songs.
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I don't have many easy songs.
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I love the smell of a theater. The old rooms and the carpet and all that stuff. I love to tell stories. Even before I was doing music, I saw myself as a director. So most of my songs come in a play form, you know, where there are characters and stories, so I like to go beyond just the song sometimes.
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We lived, ate, and breathed pop songs.
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Dad really had little to do with the songs, except to perform them.
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My pump-up songs before I compete are not the usual. They're more girly songs. I love 'The Climb' by Miley Cyrus. It's about the journey and savoring every moment. I have 'The World's Greatest' by R. Kelly on my playlist, too.
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I'd love to say that I could write political songs, but I don't feel clued-up enough.
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We have always adapted ourselves to the songs instead of vice versa.
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We became the songs we wrote.
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I'd really started hating music. I'd started hating all the songs, hating being in the industry, hating doing the shows. So I had to learn to love music again if I wanted to continue doing this.
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Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pigmy hatreds.
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As the opportunity grows for unlimited growth and progress, the chances of failure increase. There is no such thing as a program that will provide security and growth and progress with no risk . . . even within the church. As freedom for unrestricted development is enhanced, the possibilities for failure are also increased. The risk factor is great.
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If you get someone who looks after himself and those around him, that's a deep ecologist. He can talk philosophy that I understand. People like that don't poison things, they don't ruin things, they don't lose soils, they don't build things they can't sustain.
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Kendra felt stunned. She had been cuddling and flirting with the son of the Fairy Queen?
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My favorite thing is coming up with titles. The majority of the songs I've every written I've always thought of the title before I've written the song.