Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes
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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
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I don't want to put my fate in country music fans; I'm too stubborn.
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I knew I wanted to pursue a career in the theater the minute I graduated from college having not pursued it! So I went back to school and got a degree in music and began working in musical theater.
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There's this idea of a star, and this person is very aloof and writes all the music, and they don't talk to anyone unless they go through the record label. And I always felt very uncomfortable about that.
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My specialty is two things: music or really strange stories.
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I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat.
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I feel like my kind of music is a big pot of different spices. It's a soup with all kinds of ingredients in it.
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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
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I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that.
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I have considered rap music stars, and there is one in my new book, Lovers and Players, and there is also a hip-hop music mogul who I think you will like a lot.
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Music is everywhere and in everything! I draw my inspiration from the day to day activities of my life!
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I think The Doors are one of the classic groups, and I think we're all tempted to feel like the time in which we grew up was somehow special, but I really do believe that there were two golden eras in music: The Forties and Fifties of big band, jazz and swing, and the Sixties and Seventies of rock. To me, they're really unparalleled.
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There's people making babies to my music. That's nice.
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To sing is to bring to life; impossible if the words are mediocre, however good the music.
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I own a mortgage company and a real estate company funded by the music. Florida is a kinda gold mine.
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When I think of music, I think of music in its totality, complete. From the lowest blues to the highest symphony, you know, so what I'd like to do is exemplify each style of as many periods as I can possibly do.
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I write about love, but it's me wanting to be in love. I've never been in love. I love my mom, my dad. I want to be in love. I think I have to allow myself to get there. I'm just so in love with music. It's weird. I'm at a crossroads because I want to be in love.
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I mean, the shoe - there is a music to it, there is attitude, there is sound, it's a movement. Clothes - it's a different story. There are a million things I'd rather do before designing clothes: directing, landscaping.
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People see me because I'm winning my fights. That's how I want people seeing me.
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Siblings are the guarantors that the private childhood world - so unlike the adult world that scientists are only just beginning to understand it - is a fully shared and objective one.
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One of the reasons I've gotten so attached to talking to scientists is that... they know there is a reality.
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When I was growing up in New York, we were the anomaly. Our family stayed, but back then families didn't stay. Once you had a second kid, you immediately left, so the kids could run around outside.
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I might not agree with myself in a year.
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Serious music usually doesn't pay.
