#w

Well, as I was saying... everyone's so nice to me, usually. ↗

— Elton John

#i #me #nice #saying #usually

Who really needs a new album from me? ↗

— Elton John

#me #needs #new #really #who

In talking, shyness and timidity distort the very meaning of my words. I don't pretend to know anybody well. People are like shadows to me and I am like a shadow. ↗

— Gwen John

#anybody #distort #i #i am #know

I grew up in Brooklyn. ↗

— Johnny Kelly

#grew #i #up

We went to dinner and healed the wounds, at least to a certain degree. But I hope he understands the hurt he did to me. He put the boot into a pal and I don't think you should do that. ↗

— Ian St. John

#certain #certain degree #degree #did #dinner

A good example of how it must have been is today's world of conducting, which is still utterly dominated by men, and the prejudice the few female conductors have to battle even today is astounding. ↗

— Lara St. John

#battle #been #conducting #conductors #dominated

I had been playing since I was 2 years old, never remembering a life without music, always playing everything naturally and mostly by ear, and all the grownups wanted were more scales and drudgery out of me. ↗

— Lara St. John

#been #drudgery #ear #everything #grownups

There is no earthly reason why a solo string instrument or voice, having the possibility to play or sing pure intonation, should want, or try, to be tempered. ↗

— Lara St. John

#having #instrument #intonation #play #possibility

Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from falling hands we throw. ↗

— John McCrae

#foe #hands #our #quarrel #take

I would sooner play in a good British picture than in the majority of American pictures I have seen. ↗

— Glynis Johns

#british #good #i #majority #picture