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.

Elvis Costello

• Singing
• Write
• Learned
• Harmony
• Arrange

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  Elvis Costello
  • Singing
  • Write
  • Learned