Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes

People speak with enormous pomposity and arrogance about music.

Elvis Costello

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• People speak with enormous pomposity and arrogance about music.

  

  Elvis Costello
  • Music
  • Arrogance
  • Pomposity