Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes

There are five things to write songs about: I'm leaving you. You're leaving me. I want you. You don't want me. I believe in something. Five subjects, and 12 notes. For all that, we musicians do pretty well.

Elvis Costello

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• I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.

  

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• Even Apple, notorious for keeping a tight grip on its products, allows fierce competitors like Google, Amazon, Spotify, and Microsoft to offer their apps on its phones and tablets.

  

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• Our quarterbacks were getting hurt; a couple got kicked out of school. The coach asked who wanted to try out for QB. I went and tried out, and from there on, I was a quarterback. I was ineligible in 10th grade until spring, so I did baseball. I started in left field and pitched.

  

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• It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

  

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• Whenever you get to win, you feel the satisfaction of all of your hard work, all the sacrifices, all the blood, sweat and tears. It feels right and makes you realise that you are really doing the right thing.

  

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• I would say our sound is soul pop.

  

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• It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.

  

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• I believe that life-saving, essential drugs should be freely available and the innovator should be paid a suitable royalty payment for his invention.

  

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• It's important to have a big-enough house in order to have space.

  

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• I always wanted to be an actor, even when I was a little kid. When I used to run away from home, I'd go to movies and sit all night watching Kirk Douglas. When I was 16, I tried getting into the Actors Studio, and they told me to get lost. I said 'I'll come back when I'm a man,' and I came back when I was 30.

  

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• On the sets, Ali Zafar was extremely entertaining... he would just start singing out of the blue. It was just great!

  

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• In baseball, you can't kill the clock. You've got to give the other man his chance. That's why this is the greatest game.

  

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• In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
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• If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

  

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• All my friends started getting boyfriends, but I didn't want a boyfriend, I wanted a thirteen-colour biro.

  

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• And I think that's a singer's job. You know, to really interpret a lyric. There's an art to it, and I think some people are really great at it, like Tammy Wynette and George Jones and Tony Bennett.

  

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• We're kind of frustrated right now. We're willing to try anything to solve this.

  

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• If and when Turkey does become a member, it will be after years of structural reforms and with a long track record of sustained and stable growth,

  

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• 'Sixth Street' is probably a new chapter for me. All of the songs were written in my apartment where I'm most comfortable, and at that point, I understood who I was and knew what I was feeling about life.

  

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• I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world. I believe that they are all God- given and I believe that they were necessary for the people to whom these religions were revealed. And I believe that if only we could all of us read the scriptures of the different faiths from the standpoints of the followers of these faiths, we should find that they were at bottom all one and were all helpful to one another.

  

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• Usually, when you go in to make a record, you have 30 songs, and you record 30 of them, and 12 of them make it to the record.

  

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• As a Christian, I'm passionately opposed to American pretensions that we have special standing with God; to political office-seekers who play on our religious differences; and to the religious arrogance that says, 'Our truth is the only truth.'

  

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• There are five things to write songs about: I'm leaving you. You're leaving me. I want you. You don't want me. I believe in something. Five subjects, and 12 notes. For all that, we musicians do pretty well.

  

  Elvis Costello
  • Songs
  • I Believe
  • Musicians