Elvis Costello Quotes
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The first song that most people picked up on, particularly in America, of mine, was a ballad, not a rock'n'roll song. It was 'Alison', and that's an R&B ballad. I don't think there's any other way to describe it.
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Sometimes I write notes that I have difficulty singing.
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Smokey Robinson writes the heartfelt songs, whereas it was my job to write the songs about weakness and failure in love.
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Don't start me talking, I could talk all night. My mind goes sleepwalking while I'm putting the world right.
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And over the last ten years, after my work with the Brodsky Quartet, I had the opportunity to write arrangements for chamber group, chamber orchestra, jazz orchestra, symphony orchestra even.
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I'm a working travelling musician, but just on a bigger scale.
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She said she was working for the ABC news, it was as much of the alphabet as she knew how to use.
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I know that when I make a record like The Delivery Man as a contrast to even Il Sogno, this is going to reach a wider audience, because it communicates in that very direct way.
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People think it is all about country music, and I know a lot of country music has come out of there, but like Blonde on Blonde by Bob Dillon was recorded there. A lot of great records; R&B records, jazz records. It's a lot of great players and great studios.
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Theres so many fish in the sea That only rise up in the sweat and smoke like mercury
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Somebody should clip Sting around the head and tell him to stop using that ridiculous Jamaican accent.
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WARNING: This album contains country & western music and may cause offence to narrow minded listeners.
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There's so many people to see. So many people to check up on and add to your collection.
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And I don't feel any form of music is beyond me in the sense of that I don't understand it or I don't have some love for some part of it.
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You have to face the fact that I have no reputation as a composer; I have my reputation as a songwriter and a performer-and that opportunity came this summer, when I was invited to perform at the Lincoln Centre festival in New York... three nights.
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Then I became an altar boy because of the solemn face, but I got thrown out at fourteen for laughing, because the priest used to mumble everything except the church plate takings.
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I've always felt writing a song was a bit like going on location. That's true in an almost literal sense. Where you are seeps in somehow.
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Oh I used to be disgusted and now I try to be amused. But since their wings have got rusted, you know, the angels wanna wear my red shoes.
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Don't wear your heart on your sleeve when your remarks are off the cuff.
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There are some things you can't cover up with lipstick and powder.
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Women hear rhythm differently than men.
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I've had an unusual life. A life far removed from most people's experience.
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Even in a perfect world where everyone was equal. I'd still own the film rights and be working on the sequel.
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I mistrust these people in music industry who can be everybody. This is where technology dictates to them. I mistrust that, that in somehow the chips capture the soul of a player, that's patent nonsense.