Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes
It's not crazy to want to have certain songs be developed harmonically and still want to make noise with the guitar. And you can have both.
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It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.
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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
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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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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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When I was in my early teens, I joined a cult. And we weren't allowed to listen to secular music or anything that wasn't made by us. So I spent a lot of time not listening to music, and by the time I could, I just didn't get into it.
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My first endeavor was to save the core of the German system of justice: the independent judiciary.
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I don't find biology as interesting as politics and humanism. I talk more about existential stuff.
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I'm often daydreaming, and it's because I've always liked the idea of there being something more than the normal world.
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When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom.
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Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. Large stores, gilt signs, flaming advertisements, will all prove unavailing if you or your employees treat your patrons abruptly. The truth is, the more kind and liberal a man is, the more generous will be the patronage bestowed upon him.
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A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.
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I think there should be bad blood between all clubs.
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A Local Government Stationery Store is something to behold. It's like walking through the back of a cupboard into a really dull Narnia.
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If we're talking fantasy, I would love to host a late night talk show... More Fallon than Leno. Those guys always seem like they're having way too much fun at their 'jobs.'
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I always traveled. I left Cameroon when I was 11 years old. I lived in the USA, in Switzerland.
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If T-Bone Walker had been a woman, I would have asked him to marry me. I'd never heard anything like that before: single-string blues played on an electric guitar.
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Since I met Starsmith, my producer, I really feel like I'm making music because we write it together and produce it together. I've got a proper involvement in the end product as opposed to just writing a song and finding someone else to produce it.
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I like to have a lot of fun. I just don't see myself as being sexy. It's more sass - more attitude - than sex.
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Laughter is something we have against oppression and oppressive people. Dictators hate people who laugh at them. It's easy for them to destroy people who resist them. But if you create jokes against them, write funny poems or articles against them, then they feel helpless and desperate. They can't do anything.
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For years I've been seeing my young brothers wearing Scarface T-shirts, John Gotti T-shirts, Rick James T-shirts. We don't have any icons or idols to look up to, just rappers and professional athletes.
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Let's face it: I paint well. I know it, you know it. There's no arguing really, is there?
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I think that we've got a huge head start on things that are not easy to do: progressive streaming, to be able to stream in very high quality, even in an environment of highly variable bit rate, and to work on a big variety of devices seamlessly.
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It's not crazy to want to have certain songs be developed harmonically and still want to make noise with the guitar. And you can have both.
