Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's really a stupid thing to want to do.
Quotes to Explore
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The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
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You have to be an optimist, right? You have to be critical, then you have to be an optimist. Or else you're really stupid.
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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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My only way of getting my uncles' attention or aunts' attention or whoever's attention was by dancing and singing around the house.
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I don't have a job, so I sit in the studio all the time and think of stupid stuff to do.
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I don't really mind not being a part of a film - because if there is no part for me, I will never force myself upon a film. I feel like it's just a distraction. If it is not organically incorporated into the story, it just feels like a stupid appearance, like a sort of wink. I hate that.
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I'm not OK dancing 90 percent.
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It's stupid to say that there's any comfort to be had in 'knowing your place,' but there is a sense of reassuring escapism to something like 'Downton Abbey.' There's a perceived romance and elegance that is wonderful to lose yourself in.
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Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases. Washington has obelisks and pyramids and underground tunnels and great art and a whole shadow world that we really don't see.
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Stupid is a great force in human affairs.
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Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
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The best mistake I ever made was believing that I was stupid. It was a childhood thing, but it played out big-time as an adult. It scorned me the rest of my life - in a good way.
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I liked Michael Jackson and used to practice his steps. I enjoy dancing!
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'What kind of stupid tale is that, when we just have to look at each other to know it isn’t true?''It has problems, I admit.'
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A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of an authentic democracy.
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Question is, are you bozos smart enough to feel stupid?
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Though you pay for the hands they're shaking The speeches and the mistakes they're making As they struggle with the undertaking Of simple thought What you want, you don't know You're with stupid now What you know, you don't want to know You're with stupid now.
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People think there's some real subversive thing playing against whoever it is; a lot of it is just people who want to go along and get along. And they also want to make money. And the bottom line is, they're going to put out as much stuff as they can - stupid, banal stuff that makes money.
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You have a brake in your brain that stops you doing stupid things. The older you are, the earlier that brake comes on. When you're 20 you stop at nothing; when you're older you're cleverer than when you're 20, so your brain brake operates more often!
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I don't stand back and judge - I do.
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Women are choosing to stay single rather than marry men who can't step up and provide.
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Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's really a stupid thing to want to do.
