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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Truly, there are terrible primal arcana of earth which had better be left unknown and unevoked; dread secrets which have nothing to do with man, and which man may learn only in exchange for peace and sanity; cryptic truths which make the knower evermore an alien among his kind, and cause him to walk alone on earth.
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Girls think that being glamorous means making mistakes and being irresponsible. And that's just not true. The smarter you are, the better prepared you are to make decisions in your life, the more likely you are to lead a satisfying life and be glamorous and fun and anything you want to be.
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I had a diary full of lyrics and whatnot and a little voice recorder of guitar riffs.
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My Portuguese uncle had a Portuguese version of a ukulele. The family would pull it out after dinner and play Portuguese folk songs on it. I couldn't wait for him to finish so I could get my hands on it. I was seven or eight years old. And he used to have a Fender amp in his house and an electric guitar. I would spend hours making sounds.
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I heard the Beatles and the Stones, and Mom bought me an electric guitar. I played lead for four years and then switched to bass. One day someone suggested that I should sing, so I sheepishly stepped up to the microphone and the rest is rock history.
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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.
