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I'm a working travelling musician, but just on a bigger scale.
Elvis Costello -
I've never felt British. I'm just not interested in national identity. I don't know why.
Elvis Costello
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Sometimes I write notes that I have difficulty singing.
Elvis Costello -
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.
Elvis Costello -
Smokey Robinson writes the heartfelt songs, whereas it was my job to write the songs about weakness and failure in love.
Elvis Costello -
She said she was working for the ABC news, it was as much of the alphabet as she knew how to use.
Elvis Costello -
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.
Elvis Costello -
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.
Elvis Costello
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WARNING: This album contains country & western music and may cause offence to narrow minded listeners.
Elvis Costello -
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.
Elvis Costello -
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.
Elvis Costello -
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.
Elvis Costello -
Theres so many fish in the sea That only rise up in the sweat and smoke like mercury
Elvis Costello -
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.
Elvis Costello
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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.
Elvis Costello -
Don't wear your heart on your sleeve when your remarks are off the cuff.
Elvis Costello -
There's so many people to see. So many people to check up on and add to your collection.
Elvis Costello -
Women hear rhythm differently than men.
Elvis Costello -
Even in a perfect world where everyone was equal. I'd still own the film rights and be working on the sequel.
Elvis Costello -
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.
Elvis Costello
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I've had an unusual life. A life far removed from most people's experience.
Elvis Costello -
My sense of history in music is much greater than a lot of people's. I listen a lot further back in the whole history of music. It's not just pop music of the last 20, 30, 40, 50 years. I'm listening to stuff from hundreds of years ago as well, because you can learn from everything.
Elvis Costello -
People tend to repeat the same quotes at me that I said when I was 23. And of course, you say things then, and sometimes they're ill-advised.
Elvis Costello -
There are some things you can't cover up with lipstick and powder.
Elvis Costello