Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes

People speak with enormous pomposity and arrogance about music.

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• There are people who, if they see something in couture that they perceive as ready-to-wear, they're in shock.

  

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• I grew up on a wide range of stuff. OutKast, they been around for over 20 years, and some of the L.A. cats like Defari, Dilated Peoples and Likwit Crew. I was always going to these shows and catching the KRS-One tennis ball, as he would throw those out, EPMD. I could go on and on.

  

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• I grew up in a kibbutz in the Galilee, but we were surrounded by Arabic villages, so I heard all these sounds and all this music. My father was very close friends with one of the Bedouin tribes, so I would always go there, to weddings, and I was always very fascinated by that music.

  

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• People speak with enormous pomposity and arrogance about music.

  

  Elvis Costello
  • Music
  • Arrogance
  • Pomposity