Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes

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• I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Time
  • Struggle
  • Chaos

• Ultimately, the only people who are in any way edified by hanging with famous people are you at the age of 11 and your mom.

  

  Adam McKay
  • People
  • Age
  • Mom

• Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the reader will have some sort of image in their mind, but words aren't good at that.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Words

• The John Birch Society is not ultra-conservative, communist-hating, and racist as opponents paint it.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • Society
  • Paint
  • Opponents

• I'm not really a piano player, but I play enough to get away with it.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Play
  • Player
  • Enough

• Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.

  

  Hakeem Jeffries
  • Politics
  • Places
  • Brooklyn

• You learn different things through fiction. Historians are always making a plot about how certain things came to happen. Whereas a novelist looks at tiny little things and builds up a sort of map, like a painting, so that you see the shapes of things.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Up
  • Different
  • Painting

• It is in the U.S. interest to engage Iran in serious negotiations - on both regional security and the nuclear challenge it poses.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Challenge
  • Serious
  • Security

• It costs a great deal of money to do a musical, and the more money involved, the more big business influences the artform.

  

  Hal Price
  • Great
  • Money
  • Business

• Coming from a smaller place always made things feel more personal, which is really what it's all about.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Always
  • Feel
  • Place

• I don't particularly like L.A.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Like
  • Particularly

• Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Something
  • More
  • Jazz

• I have faith in faith. God is there, whether we have faith or not, so why not have faith in him?

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • God
  • Why
  • Faith

• I could be winning the decathlon in high school, which I've won twice, yet, if my dad is in the audience, 'Oh look! It's Anthony Quinn.' And I'm like, 'Hello? Kid just got a gold medal. Hello? I'm over here.'

  

  Francesco Quinn
  • School
  • High
  • Dad

• I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Blonde

• I'm in no hurry to get old. But when I do, I'll be out to enjoy every last minute. I see myself at 90 in some nursing home, waving my walking stick about as I jive to Gene Vincent records.

  

  Imelda May
  • Home
  • Myself
  • Walking

• The first two projects I did out of my dorm room were mock film soundtracks.

  

  Danger Mouse
  • Film
  • First
  • Two

• Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • Live
  • Heart
  • Cold

• I mean, if you decided to go out today and get you an instrument and do whatever it is that you do, no one can tell you how you're going to do it but when you do it.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Today
  • You
  • Mean

• I'm very interested, in all my books, in community, what binds people together, which I think is an obvious consequence of being the fourth of six children.

  

  Beth Gutcheon
  • People
  • Children
  • Together

• My dad started teaching me how to play guitar when I was 13 years old. When he'd go to work, he'd map out guitar cords on a piece of notebook paper. I'd sit down and look at it every day and practice while he was gone.

  

  Jason Aldean
  • Work
  • Dad
  • Play

• For anarchy to succeed or simply to advance towards its success it must be conceived not only as a lighthouse which illuminates and attracts, but as something possible and attainable, not in centuries to come, but in a relatively short time and without relying on miracles.

  

  Errico Malatesta
  • Success
  • Miracles
  • Advance

• Wall Street's crime, in the eyes of its classical enemies, was less its power than its morals.

  

  John Kenneth Galbraith
  • Power
  • Eyes
  • Wall

• She pulls the eyes out with a face like a magnet.

  

  Elvis Costello
  • Eyes
  • Face
  • Magnet