Don't shoot me, I'm just the piano player!
Interpretation
This quote expresses a humorous resignation to being blamed for the situation rather than being the cause.
Elton John's quote, 'Don't shoot me, I'm just the piano player!', humorously illustrates the idea of being unfairly blamed for circumstances beyond one's control. It highlights the vulnerability of a performer who may be the focal point of audience emotions, yet is merely doing their job, suggesting that one should not direct anger or frustration at those who are not responsible for the larger situation.
In practice
At a comedy club while a joke falls flat.
I don't want to be married. I'm very happy with a civil partnership. If gay people want to get married, or get together, they should have a civil partnership. The word 'marriage,' I think, puts a lot of people off. You get the same equal rights that we do when we have a civil partnership. Heterosexual people get married. We can have civil partnerships.
I just wish more of my fellow queers would come out sometimes. It's nice out here, you know?
At heart I've always been a music fan. That part of me has never changed since I was a little kid, sitting in a room watching a record go round, looking at the colour of the labels.
I hate to say this, but I always listen to the music and the instrumentation first, and then grab on to the lyrics later.
So excuse me forgetting, but these things I do_x000D_ _x000D_ You see I've forgotten, if they're green or they're blue_x000D_ _x000D_ Anyway, the thing is, what I really mean_x000D_ _x000D_ Yours are the sweetest eyes, I've ever seen.
Don't be afraid to let her into your heart and when your down, don't try to carry the whole world on your shoulders.
I let my drinking do the talking.
Very often in Chekhov, where he exhibits a little bit of human behavior that you recognize as true, you give a little laugh. It's like a reflex.
It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
I would not want to live if I could not perform. It's in my will. I am not to be revived unless I can do an hour of stand-up.
I believe Sarah Palin is a true statesman, whose experience as a failed vice presidential candidate, half-term governor and eight-episode reality star has fully prepared her to take control of our nuclear arsenal.
He was a long, stripy policeman, who flowed out of his uniform at odd spots, as if Nature, setting out to make a constable, had had a good deal of material left over which she had not liked to throw away but hardly seemed able to fit into the general scheme.
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