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 am a failed architect, if I'm honest. I got a degree in art history and was about to get another degree, in architecture, but realized I would be terrible at building things because I've got really bad spatial awareness.
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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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Go to bed; tired is stupid.
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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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Chroniclers of the role of paper in history are given to extravagant pronouncements: Architecture would not have been possible without paper. Without paper, there would have been no Renaissance. If there had been no paper, the Industrial Revolution would not have been possible. None of these statements is true.
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If you examine this, I think that you will find that it's the mechanics of Japanese architecture that have been thought of as the direct influence upon our architecture.
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I'd rather have people really be able to step back and get their money's worth and look at me as a true artist than somebody who is just regurgitating other material.
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It is important to direct our intelligence with good intentions. Without intelligence, we cannot accomplish very much. Without good intentions, the way we exercise of our intelligence may have destructive results.
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I don't mind going into a liberal lion's den. That's where you test yourself.
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Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's really a stupid thing to want to do.
