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Love Quote by Elton John

"We were both very much the same. We were both very impulsive. We both loved life. We both loved shopping. We both had a love of clothes, obviously, because he was the designer that I kind of wore forever and ever"

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The line reads like celebrity small talk, but it’s doing something more strategic: it turns a designer-client relationship into a romance of temperament. Elton John isn’t just reminiscing about fashion; he’s building a two-person myth where taste becomes destiny. “We were both very much the same” is the key move. It collapses the distance between icon and artisan, framing the bond as mutual recognition rather than transaction. In the world Elton comes from, where everything is commodified and documented, similarity is a way to claim sincerity.

The repetition is telling. “We were both” lands like a drumbeat, insisting on equality, while “impulsive” and “loved life” are code for a particular kind of excess: the glamour of appetite, the refusal of restraint. Then the quote tilts into the pleasures that can be publicly confessed: shopping, clothes. That’s not shallow; it’s the language available for intimacy in a culture where men’s tenderness often has to travel through objects. Style becomes a proxy for affection.

The throwaway “obviously” is also doing work. It assumes the audience knows the legend: Elton as maximalist, the designer as auteur, the outfits as part of the performance. “Wore forever and ever” isn’t literal; it’s devotional. He’s describing continuity in an industry obsessed with novelty, suggesting that what endured wasn’t just a look, but a shared orientation toward spectacle as a form of joy and identity.

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John, Elton. (2026, January 17). We were both very much the same. We were both very impulsive. We both loved life. We both loved shopping. We both had a love of clothes, obviously, because he was the designer that I kind of wore forever and ever. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/we-were-both-very-much-the-same-we-were-both-very-28540/

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John, Elton. "We were both very much the same. We were both very impulsive. We both loved life. We both loved shopping. We both had a love of clothes, obviously, because he was the designer that I kind of wore forever and ever." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/we-were-both-very-much-the-same-we-were-both-very-28540/.

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"We were both very much the same. We were both very impulsive. We both loved life. We both loved shopping. We both had a love of clothes, obviously, because he was the designer that I kind of wore forever and ever." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/we-were-both-very-much-the-same-we-were-both-very-28540/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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Elton John (born March 25, 1947) is a Musician from England.

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