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I Find That So Many Of My Peers Of My Age Don't Listen To Anything New. But I Love The New. I Love The Energy Of The New, The Energy Of The New Act. The Young Are So Important. The Young Give You The Energy, And If You Don't Notice The Young, And You Don't Give Them Credit And You Don't Listen To All Sorts Of Music, Then You're Missing Out On Something.

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Elton John

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I Find That So Many Of My Peers Of My Age Don't Listen To Anything New. But I Love The New. I Love The Energy Of The New, The Energy Of The New Act. The Young Are So Important. The Young Give You The Energy, And If You Don't Notice The Young, And You Don't Give Them Credit And You Don't Listen To All Sorts Of Music, Then You're Missing Out On Something.

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What A Scandal, If I Die. Yeah, I'm Gonna Kill Myself, Get A Little Headline News.

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Oh Teacher, I Need You Like A Little Child, You Got Something In You To Drive A School Boy Wild.

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I Get High In The Evening Sniffing Pots Of Glue.

We Can't Keep Thinking Of Gay People As Being Ostracised; We Can't Keep Thinking Of Muslim People As Being [ostracised] Because Of The Fundamentalism That Occurs In Islam. Muslim People Have To Do Something About Speaking Up About It. We Can't Judge A Book By Its Cover.

I Want To Do A Musical Movie. Like Evita, But With Good Music.

My Old Man Is Drunker Than A Barrel Full Of Monkeys, But My Old Lady She Don't Care.

You Can Cage The Songbird, But You Can't Make Her Sing. And You Can Trap The Free Bird, But You'll Have To Clip Her Wings.

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