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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.
Elvis Costello -
Serious music usually doesn't pay.
Elvis Costello
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Imagination is a powerful deceiver.
Elvis Costello -
Anything that has to travel all the way down from your cerebellum to your fingertips, there's a lot of things that can happen on the journey. Sometimes I'll listen to records, my own stuff, and I think god, the original idea for this was so much better than the mutation that we arrived at.
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Certain songs have been written years apart, but they have a natural continuity to my mind.
Elvis Costello -
Cause somewhere in the Quizling Clinic, there's a shorthand typist taking seconds over minutes.
Elvis Costello -
Funny, now I can see, how looks can be deceiving.
Elvis Costello -
Commercial radio is absolutely the enemy of music. They are my sworn and mortal enemy, and I will have nothing to do with them.
Elvis Costello
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I feel like a juggler running out of hands.
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When you work with new people, I think that it throws all of the matters into relief, because you have to explain yourself every time. It's like crossing a new border. They want to see your documents.
Elvis Costello -
My dad's father was a White Star Line trumpet player in the '20s. It shaped the way that I think about music. My grandfather was classically trained, military trained. He was an orphan who ended up in the Military School of Music in Kneller Hall.
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There are a lot of things that you can like at a distance without spending a huge amount of time pondering. It's not so complicated.
Elvis Costello -
She pulls the eyes out with a face like a magnet.
Elvis Costello -
There are a few things that I regret, but nothing that I need to forget.
Elvis Costello
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Was it a millionaire who said, "Imagine no possessions"?
Elvis Costello -
The wages of sin are an expensive infection.
Elvis Costello -
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.
Elvis Costello -
You must hold on to the sort of finger-painting aspect of music. That's something I learned, particularly from listening to Neil Young. Tom Waits is another one, because Tom's music is incredibly sophisticated and beautifully arranged, but he's using a toolbox that's unlike anybody else's.
Elvis Costello -
The way you look I understand how you were not impressed, but I heard you let that little friend of mine take off your party dress.
Elvis Costello -
It's the stupid details that my heart is breaking for.
Elvis Costello
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There's no money back guarantee on future happiness.
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When you're working with the same band you kind of know their style inside out, and even when you've been working for seven years with the same people, suddenly they'll do something you didn't even think they were capable of.
Elvis Costello -
No use wishing now for any other sin.
Elvis Costello -
I can't say anymore than I love you. Anything else would be a waste of breath.
Elvis Costello