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 wrote poetry before I wrote songs, and T.S. Eliot was my inspiration. I love his honesty and try to bring that to my own songwriting.

  

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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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• Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do and then just go for it. I never know what the public's going to like, anyway.

  

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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.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
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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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• I spent a long time looking at faces, drinking in smiles. Am I happy or unhappy? It’s not a very important question. I live with such frenzied intensity. Things and people are waiting for me, and doubtless I am waiting for them and desiring them with all my strength and sadness. But, here, I earn the right to be alive by silence and by secrecy. The miracle of not having to talk about oneself.

  

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• I always try to honor a character by being honest and truthful to who they are, in spite of my own personality and beliefs.

  

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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.

  

  Bernie Taupin
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