Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes

I've been lucky to listen to lots of different types of music.

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• I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still blessed with the opportunity to make music and pass out a message like, 'Life is good,' to the world.

  

  Nas
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• The best thing about being on the road in general is just playing every single night in front of people that are genuinely fans of your music.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • People
  • Music
  • Night

• The problem, when comparing contemporary television to television in 1974, is that TV has become not just bad but sad.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Bad
  • Problem
  • Sad

• Men and women have roles - their roles are different, but their rights are equal.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • Men
  • Different
  • Women

• My father has been a voice of encouragement in times of desperation for so many people. But he died when I was so young that, for me, his music has been a way for me to get to know him better.

  

  Damian Marley
  • People
  • Music
  • Father

• My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Music
  • Light
  • Day

• I got tired of different drum sounds so you buy different effects for more manipulation.

  

  Ikue Mori
  • Different
  • Tired
  • Manipulation

• The real reason we ended up getting into that type of music was our dad worked for an oil company so we spent a year overseas when we were young kids. Because of that, it was all Spanish TV and radio so we ended up having these '50s and '60s tapes, tapes of that music.

  

  Zac Hanson Hanson
  • Up
  • Music
  • Real

• I'm doin' something different. I mean, I talk a little bit about race and interracial dating, but it's not the heart of my act. I just try to do what I think is funny; there's no huge message or through line.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Different
  • Heart
  • Funny

• Every kid has a laptop; everyone can make music, so in order to stand out, I think it's important to find that sonic identity, I think my sonic identity - and mine is finding these weird sounds that may not necessarily sound that musical, and make them sound musical.

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • Important
  • May

• Most music that you hear is in synch with itself. We were experimenting with the music falling out of synch with itself and even though it is out of synch you mind can still understand what it is meant to be doing.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • Music
  • Mind
  • Falling

• The thing about Donald Trump, he is a different candidate.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Different
  • Trump
  • Donald Trump

• Every weekend, I'm on the highway to Antwerp. I need to be there, to have the calm. It's a whole different life: I jump on my bike, and it's so small, I can be anywhere in a minute. I like to be at home when there's free time because when you're at a big company, you're constantly surrounded by 30 people.

  

  Raf Simons
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• Every friendship is different because everyone's personality is different.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Different
  • Personality
  • Friendship

• I wanted a name I could shape the music towards. I was going to Miami quite a lot at the time, speaking a lot of Spanish with my friends from Cuba - 'Lana Del Rey' reminded us of the glamour of the seaside. It sounded gorgeous coming off the tip of the tongue.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Time
  • Music
  • Friends

• I've had problems with my throat over the years, playing with loud bands for years, and I've had bruised vocal chords and nodules.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Years
  • Problems
  • Over

• The thing with me is, about that - about rock and all that - years and years of crate-digging, listening to old music, you kind of start to connect the dots. And I was seeing the thread that was connecting everything together, which is pretty much the blues. And everything soul or funk kind of starts with that.

  

  D'Angelo
  • Music
  • Together
  • Soul

• We're living in a time when parenting is not at all mirroring the way I was parented. For me, I just followed my parents around on their errands; when they were busy on the phone, I was quiet. It's a different kettle of fish these days: They run the house, and you listen to their music, and you go to their appointments.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Time
  • Music
  • Different

• What is the empathy deficit? The inability of people to stand in other folks shoes. It's hard to empathize with people who have different values than you

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Different
  • Shoes

• Continuity is at the heart of conservatism: ecology serves that heart.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Heart
  • Conservatism
  • Ecology

• Jeff Sachs has the Millennium Villages. He spends $2.5 million in one village. It's an absolutely ridiculous model, because I've said that if you gave me $2.5 million, I can train 100 grandmothers, solar electrify 100 villages - 10,000 houses - and save you 100,000 litres of kerosene.

  

  Bunker Roy
  • Model

• I definitely had a weird thing of being attracted to older men. Never my family friends, never my dad's friends.

  

  Alia Shawkat
  • Men
  • Family
  • Friends

• While I was in India, my yoga teacher asked me to start teaching, and my life became about that for years. I taught 18 classes a week, therapeutics, and traveled to study with other teachers.

  

  Johnny Colt Train
  • Life
  • Study
  • Teacher

• I've been lucky to listen to lots of different types of music.

  

  Elvis Costello
  • Music
  • Different