Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes
My dad had a steady job with a really major dance band from '54 till '68, and then quit because he wanted to play different music. He wanted to sing about peace. He believed in these things.
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I'll always be back to the stage. I have no doubt that the stage will always call me back. There will always be a character that no one else can play, and I'll be back to play it.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
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Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.
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When you live in L.A., it is easy to stay fit, as the weather is amazing.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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Lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and... stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to 'walk about' into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want?
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I prefer to underplay scenes rather than, you know, be big and drive them. And sometimes you have to do that, but I like the more natural styles.
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I say, you work eight hours, and you sleep eight hours - be sure they're not the same eight hours.
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Sometimes, great collaboration is hard to nurture online, so doing so offline is the way to go.
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I don't care if you're Muslim or Christian or Buddhist or whatever your religion is, when you listen to a spiritual song and you really open your heart, you can feel it. You can feel the message of it. Just a simple story.
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Before, I was so stupid. But, you know, when you have friends who died on the street, you say, okay, let's calm down. It's not the kind of energy I want to have in life. I want to go slower, and longer.
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I always keep a ball in the car. You never know.
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I love my fan base because they never high-five me; they always get really shifty and hide. Adam Sandler's fan base are like, 'Hey!' and high-five him and want to hang out, but mine go behind pillars and get really freaked out.
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I have crushes on women all the time.
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My father had a passion for love. It's mostly what he talked about in his songs, and I still have his old records today.
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I like challenges, I like that fear you feel for something new, and with a new director, I think it's very important to always support new projects.
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Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
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The pace of progress on Mars depends upon the pace of progress of SpaceX.
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I feel like I'm a torchbearer for jazz, fostering its tradition but its future, too.
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If I were a bottle of wine, my name would be Thom Cork
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We will always make music, but Die Antwoord is... finite.
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The emphasis should be on why we do a job.
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My dad had a steady job with a really major dance band from '54 till '68, and then quit because he wanted to play different music. He wanted to sing about peace. He believed in these things.
