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Elton John

"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."

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"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."

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"We had every kind of audience you could name. Young, old, not-so-old, some older than old, some younger than young: they were there, they were there! There was everything."

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"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet."

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"I like to be able to come and go as I please, and I don't really like having my face and name plastered around. I think it's a bit weird to have your name plastered on every page in a magazine, where in each case you're using a different piece of equipment."

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"I don't want to lose my name because that's how I know myself. There is a legacy here."

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"You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them."

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"It's been over 15 years since I toured... over 12 years since I did any recording under my own name. I never really intended to take that long of a hiatus."

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"The stuff we did under the name the Rentals got so chaotic."

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"I never heard nobody in my audience call me any kind of names."

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"It quite often happens that they attach a name to a project and it doesn't get all the financing it needs."

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"I went for an outrageous form of expressing myself. It seemed to be a way that I could make my name and show that I was somebody."

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