Taupin Quotes & Sayings

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

Elton John himself never seems pretentious but Bernie Taupin's lyrics often do - sometimes pretentious in a clever sort of way, but pretentious nonetheless. There is a conflict between Elton's and Bernie's personal styles, no doubt about it. — Jon Landau

Leaves and bark, leaves and bark,
To lean against and hear in the dark.
Petals I may have once pursued.
Leaves are all my darker mood. — Robert Frost

I mean that I think I find the psychology of people more interesting than politics. I think the psychology of politics is more interesting than straight politics. — Joan Cusack

'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

I dabbled a little bit in the whole music thing but I've always thought about Bernie Taupin, who is Elton John's lyricist; Elton John is the great melody and song writer but Bernie Taupin is the one who writes all the lyrics. I don't write lyrics, and I never wanted to be in the music business if I was just going to be a puppet in it. — Carmen Ejogo

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

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

To put me through school my morn had to work, so I was a latchkey kid. — Lara Flynn Boyle

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

I've always loved Elton John and that is one of my favorite songs by him and Bernie (Taupin). The American songbook is ever-expanding and I feel like it works well with what I was trying to say. — Cheyenne Jackson

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

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

If I have one addiction in life, it's probably food. — Liam Hemsworth

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

Every single night, it seemed to be the same seven or eight guys: Harry Nilsson, myself, Mickey Dolenz, Bernie Taupin, Keith Moon when he was in town. It was actually sort of a social club, drinking club, for rock stars that drank - seriously drank. — Alice Cooper

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

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

I told Bernie Taupin that his best lyrics were for Song For Guy just because it doesn't have any words in it. But there you go ... I'm a wind up! But a good Elton song for karaoke is I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues ... "laughing like children, living like lovers, rolling like thunder under the covers ... " Everyone can join in! — Matt Lucas

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

This book is entirely dedicated to my wife, Robin Sullivan.
Some have asked how it is I write such strong women without resorting to putting swords in their hands. It is because of her.
She is Arista.
She is Thrace.
She is Modina.
She is Amilia.
And she is my Gwen.
This series has been a tribute to her.
This is your book, Robin.
I hope you don't mind that I put down in words
How wonderful life is while you're in the world.
ELTON JOHN, BERNIE TAUPIN — Michael J. Sullivan

This is what I thought: for the most banal even to become an adventure, you must (and this is enough) begin to recount it. This is what fools people: a man is always a teller of tales, he sees everything that happens to him through them; and he tries to live his own life as if he were telling a story.
But you have to choose: live or tell. — Jean-Paul Sartre