Bernie Taupin Quotes & Sayings

We may have limped onto Broadway as the underdogs, but underdogs bite back occasionally. — Bernie Taupin

'Captain Fantastic' was the first album in history to enter the (American) album chart at number one. We did it for a second time after that. Now that's not a boast, that's frightening ... The process of doing it was unique because I wrote the songs in the order they were recorded, so it was written like a story. — Bernie Taupin

Lincolnshire is the Idaho of England. You were either going to drive a tractor for the rest of your life or head for the city to work in a factory. — Bernie Taupin

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

Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets. — Bernie Taupin

Read books, discover the blues and don't Tweet. — Bernie Taupin

My Mother set me on the right track, Marty Robbins made me want to write songs, and Jesus Christ did the rest. — Bernie Taupin

My mother's father taught English literature. When I was about ten or eleven, I could recite Macaulay's 'Lays of Ancient Rome.' While other kids were playing pedestrian war games, I'd be Horatius keeping the bridge. — Bernie Taupin

One reason I quit doing interviews after years and years and years was because I was making things up. — Bernie Taupin

The worst thing about me is that I'll buy albums and put them away on the shelf and forget that I've got them. — Bernie Taupin

I am a simple vessel with complex overtones, opinionated on occasions but willing to listen. Comfortable with reclusiveness and devoted to privacy and family. Patriotic to a fault and allergic to cruelty, ignorance and bad music. — Bernie Taupin

Early risers catch the world waking and see its true colors. — Bernie Taupin

Basically it takes me very little time to write a song. If I find myself taking more than an hour to do it I usually forget it, and try something else. I like to work quickly; I never like to waste any time. I never write half a song and come back to it later at all. It all has to be done at once. I lose interest if it doesn't. — Bernie Taupin

Elton John's home is laden with trinkets and books relating to Satanism and witchcraft. — Bernie Taupin

Until you've seen this trash can dream come true.
You stand at the edge while people run you through.
And I thank the Lord there's people out there like you.
I thank the Lord there's people out there like you. — Bernie Taupin