Elvis Costello Quotes
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She said she was working for the ABC news, it was as much of the alphabet as she knew how to use.
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I knew I was in trouble, but I thought I was in hell.
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When in doubt, play track 4 - it is usually the one you want.
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There was not a lot of rock n roll in the house. Our parents didnt think it was very groovy, and I tend to agree with them. If you grew up with Charlie Parker, Bill Haley wasnt very hip.
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Mention Hubert Sumlin, as well, because Hubert's a great man, and again, you know, I don't play the guitar very good, but when I'm playing this kind of music, I always have him in my mind. I wish I could play like Hubert.
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Patsy Cline belongs shoulder-to-shoulder with Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald.
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Songs are more powerful than books.
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Some people can't physically hear things. A kid that listens to Metallica or something can't hear that, because he's filled himself up with this stuff, he physically can't hear a banjo or a harp or something.
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There are a few things that I regret, but nothing that I need to forget.
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Those days she was just a beautiful girl, now she's framed and hung up.
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You've got a chemistry class; I want a piece of your mind; You don't know what you started when you mixed it up with mine.
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When they finally put you in the ground, I'll stand on your grave and tramp the dirt down.
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I can write orchestrations, but I can't sight-read music and play at the same time. I don't have enough facility.
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You have to face the fact that I have no reputation as a composer; I have my reputation as a songwriter and a performer-and that opportunity came this summer, when I was invited to perform at the Lincoln Centre festival in New York... three nights.
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I've had a lot of different experiences in music over the years.And not everything you do can satisfy everybody's idealised version of you.
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The theme of exile is attractive to me, because it's sort of like the family business. Not just music, but travel.
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There are five things to write songs about: I'm leaving you. You're leaving me. I want you. You don't want me. I believe in something. Five subjects, and 12 notes. For all that, we musicians do pretty well.
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I find humming is very useful.
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My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant, someone who disrupts the daily drag of life just enough to leave the victim thinking there's maybe more to it all than the mere hum-drum quality of existence.
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I know that when I make a record like The Delivery Man as a contrast to even Il Sogno, this is going to reach a wider audience, because it communicates in that very direct way.
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I find it to be the ultimate backhanded compliment when you are compared against yourself.
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I'd be very suspicious of anybody that seems to have to move to the next level of expression. I distrust that: now I'm writing a book, now I'm being an actor. It should be a natural thing. I think it's a natural thing for you to act. But I think that people that feel that, because they've written one maybe quite beautiful love song that equips them to play Romeo, is probably misguided.
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You think you're alone until you realize you're in it. Now fear is here to stay, love is here for a visit.
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Living a very long time would be a very scary thing.
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You'll never be alone in the bone orchard.
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I've worked hard, every single day since I left school. I think I have a Protestant work ethic.
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The long arm of the law slides up the outskirts of town.
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Don't try to touch my heart, it's darker than you think. And don't try to read my mind, because it's full of disappearing ink.
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The people with the most resources are the federal government. If you can invade a country halfway across the world in a matter of days, you can surely come to the aid of your own citizens in a shorter order of time.
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If I am frightened then I can hide it If I am crying, I'll call it laughter If I am haunted, I'll call it my imaginary friend If I am bleeding I'll call it wine But if you leave me then I am broken And if I'm broken then only death remains
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