Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes
Sometimes I write notes that I have difficulty singing. And you start talking yourself out of the bold melody and start wanting to arrange it in another key or something. Maybe I just never learned my harmony part, because what everybody says sounds odd to them sounds perfectly natural to me.
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I don't know what it is about me. I don't know if there's something strange... but I continue to play aliens, so there's obviously something there.
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I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting.
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Anger begets more anger, and forgiveness and love lead to more forgiveness and love.
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I shoot, I score. He shoots, I score.
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Economics make homeopath and alternative healers look empirical and scientific.
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Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
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I became famous almost before I had a craft.
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A good cookout ought to last at least six hours; if you haven't eaten and gotten full and gotten hungry and eaten again, you're doing something wrong.
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Nobody's free until everybody's free.
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That's how I judge a quarterback: Either you make plays or you don't. I don't even want to talk about mechanics.
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For many people, music is here to let them forget the daily chores of life.
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Klutziness is endearing. I like imperfection.
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God's plan is to make much of the man, far more of him than of anything else. Men are God's method. The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men.
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If you pursue happiness you never find it.
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I never really know what I'm going to write next until it comes to me. So we'll just have to see what happens.
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We also must pull from our highest ideals of justice and protect against those ills that destabilized our economy - like predatory lending, over-leveraged financial institutions and the unchecked avarice of the past that trumped fairness and common sense. Our platform calls for significant cuts in federal spending.
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Sometimes I write notes that I have difficulty singing. And you start talking yourself out of the bold melody and start wanting to arrange it in another key or something. Maybe I just never learned my harmony part, because what everybody says sounds odd to them sounds perfectly natural to me.
