#had

I've had an amazing professional life, personal life, but at 64 to have a son who gives us that much love and enjoyment is, wow! ↗

— Elton John

#enjoyment #gives #had #i #life

Well, I was making a record, and I had to choose a name, because they said, you know, you can't make a record under the name of Reg Dwight, because it's never going to - you know, it's not attractive enough. ↗

— Elton John

#because #choose #dwight #enough #going

Well, I've had my fair share in Britain of battling the tabloids. ↗

— Elton John

#britain #fair #fair share #had #i

When Little Richard used to stand up and play it was just fabulous, and Liberace had the candlesticks and the rings and the gift of the gab. The piano's is the most ungainly rock' n' roll instrument of all time but those two people transcended it, as did Jerry Lee Lewis. ↗

— Elton John

#fabulous #gift #had #instrument #jerry

If I had been trying to take the job away from him in a sneaky, underhand manner, then I deserved all I got. But it was the other way around. I was trying to get him the job. ↗

— Ian St. John

#away #been #deserved #get #got

Naturally, I was a bit of a curiosity, being the first hydrogen peroxide ingestion patient they had ever seen. ↗

— Lara St. John

#bit #curiosity #ever #first #had

I have never had a social life, don't ever want one because it's boring. I'm just not very good with people, and you meet people every night who expect you to be this rock star with these developed social skills, which I don't have. ↗

— Daniel Johns

#boring #developed #ever #every #every night

I had to try and find a way to express happiness without sounding corny. ↗

— Daniel Johns

#express #find #had #happiness #i

At first I had some idea that the absence of color made the work more physical. Early on I was very involved with the notion of the painting as an object and tended to attack that idea from different directions. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#attack #color #different #different directions #directions

I was raised in South Carolina; I wasn't aware of any art in South Carolina. There was a minor museum in Charleston, which had nothing of interest in it. It showed local artists, paintings of birds. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#art #artists #aware #birds #carolina