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.Elvis Costello
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It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.
Mahatma Gandhi -
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
Oscar Wilde -
I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.
J. B. Smoove -
I believe that life-saving, essential drugs should be freely available and the innovator should be paid a suitable royalty payment for his invention.
Yusuf Hamied -
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.
Natalia Kills -
My first endeavor was to save the core of the German system of justice: the independent judiciary.
Hans Frank
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I don't find biology as interesting as politics and humanism. I talk more about existential stuff.
Dana Carvey -
I'm often daydreaming, and it's because I've always liked the idea of there being something more than the normal world.
Samantha Shannon -
When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom.
Walter Annenberg -
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.
P. T. Barnum -
A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.
H. L. Mencken -
I think there should be bad blood between all clubs.
Earl Weaver
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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.
Sally Phillips -
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.'
Aaron Sanchez -
I always traveled. I left Cameroon when I was 11 years old. I lived in the USA, in Switzerland.
Yannick Noah -
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.
B. B. King -
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.
Ellie Goulding -
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.
Janet Jackson
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We did like 12 shows, then we did the entire Ozzfest with the first half completely booked; then we did the second half with a couple days off here and there.
Tom Araya Slayer -
During college I realized I had a music predisposition and really got involved in it. I started playing bass guitar. That was how I began to fit in.
Ronnie Dunn Brooks & Dunn -
As far as dramas are concerned, it's considered passe for playwrights to turn out anything the average person can understand.
Ethel Merman -
I consider plot a necessary intrusion on what I really want to do, which is write snappy dialogue.
Aaron Sorkin -
I think it has a vibe because we're all so different and individual... so it's fantastic when we come together as a group. Then at the same time we're all coming from the same place - Idol. We all went from nothing to something in two months... so we understand each other.
Kate DeAraugo -
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.
Elvis Costello