John Lennon Quotes
It depends who they are. If it's Mick Jagger or the Old Guard as I call them, yeah, they're the Old Guard. Elton John, David Bowie are the newies. I don't feel like an old uncle, dear, 'cause I'm not that much older than half of 'em, hehe.
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You are not indispensable to your church, but you are indispensable to your family.
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I hope I'm remembered as the king of the world, the noble man who united all the nations of the earth. But that probably won't happen.
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As a teenager I was crazy about David Bowie. He was a huge inspiration for me. I dressed a little bit crazily in school and dyed my hair every colour under the sun.
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I love cooking. Not for myself alone. Cooking is about giving.
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You can't win a marathon without putting some bandaids on your nipples!
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People ask what those women saw in me. Let's face it, I wasn't a bad-looking stud. But that's not it. It's the music; it's standing up there under the lights. A lot of women just flip; looks have nothing to do with it. You call Mick Jagger good-looking?
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I've always been into guitars. We want to put keyboards on, but keyboard players don't look cool onstage, they just keep their heads down. There has never been a cool keyboard player, apart from Elton John.
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Elton John is an absolute lad. He's a hero.
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Look at Paul McCartney, look at Elton John. They're jealous of Justin Timberlake. I'm sure they were jealous of me when I was in my imperial phase.
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It is by now beyond question that Elton John is a competent and classy entertainer. Few people who have achieved his popularity have succeeded in maintaining his standards for performance and professionalism.
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Tin Machine had fallen on the grenade, gotten rid of the "Phil Collins-Tina Turner-1980s-Let's Dance-vibe" that he was uncomfortable with, and basically re-booted the Bowie (David Bowie) career system. All in all, it was fun, nobody died, and it was an education in diving into the deep end of the pool.
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David Bowie, for me, was the butchest guy in town. Jagger was like a truck driver.
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I think it's nice to age gracefully. OK, you lose the youth, a certain stamina and dewy glow, but what you gain on the inside as a human being is wonderful: the wisdom, the acceptance and the peace of mind. It's a fair exchange.
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I'm a feminist, of course, and I feel as if I'm very politically correct, although I do question what's P.C. and what's not - I don't just accept what I'm told.
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A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.
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I always intended to move back to New York when I was first there.
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She rose and followed her bust from the room.
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He had a thousand-year-old stare.
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The first exhibition [Publo Picasso] was organized by the communist party - because of his position during the war and all that.
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If you want to create something that's worth doing you have to self-edit from the get-go. You really must be careful and selective with whom you work, you must constantly ask yourself the hard questions about your art, and you must set a nearly unattainable standard for yourself.
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It depends who they are. If it's Mick Jagger or the Old Guard as I call them, yeah, they're the Old Guard. Elton John, David Bowie are the newies. I don't feel like an old uncle, dear, 'cause I'm not that much older than half of 'em, hehe.
