I'm the Connie Francis of rock 'n' roll. Elton John More Quotes by Elton John More Quotes From Elton John I spent the last week of Ryan's life in Indiana, Indianapolis, with Jeanne and Andrea, Jeanne, his mother, Andrea, his sister, and some other beautiful people who came. And it taught me a lesson. Elton John mother beautiful people And we have come so far like that. I mean, the advances on the medication side have been enormous, and the advances on the human side have been enormous. But we still have this stigma to get rid of, and then we really will be able to see the light at the end of the tunnel. Elton John tunnels light mean It's so easy to write songs about misery and hard times and sadness. It's much more difficult to write songs about happy and chirpy stuff. Elton John sadness writing song I don't think there can ever be too many messages about AIDS. If you stop the education process, then people are going to think the problem is all over and done with. 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And it's like, you know, do you not have a conscience? Do you not want the world to be a better place? You're still making a profit. How much more of a profit do you want to make? Elton John like-you want world I really don't need the public's money. I'd like to have something on the internet with charitable donation optional, where anyone can download my music for free. Elton John donation internet needs When we started, I was delivering meals to people in Atlanta. We were a direct-care organization. And it was - people needed meals, they needed transport, they needed medication, they needed buddy systems. They had a death sentence. There was AZT, and that was just prolonging the agony, basically. Now people, of course, if they are on antiretrovirals, they face a lifetime of health, basically. I mean, it doesn't - it's I would say in the 99 percent certainty bracket that if you are on that medication, you will have a healthy life. Elton John agony atlanta mean I don't have a computer. I am the Luddite of rock'n'roll, I don't have a portable phone. I write things down. Elton John rocks phones writing
