Elvis Costello Quotes
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I've never felt British. I'm just not interested in national identity. I don't know why.
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I'd been to Memphis before, but we stayed out of Memphis early on in the late 70s for obvious reasons. People were very sensitive about Elvis Presley, and my stage name obviously would be provocative to some people in that area at that time.
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Sometimes I write notes that I have difficulty singing.
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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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I'm a working travelling musician, but just on a bigger scale.
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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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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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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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There's so many people to see. So many people to check up on and add to your collection.
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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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WARNING: This album contains country & western music and may cause offence to narrow minded listeners.
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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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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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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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I've had an unusual life. A life far removed from most people's experience.
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Don't wear your heart on your sleeve when your remarks are off the cuff.
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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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I started with rock n' roll and...then you start to take it apart like a child with a toy and you see there's blues and there's country...Then you go back from country into American music...and you end up in Scotland and Ireland eventually.
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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.
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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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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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You'll never be alone in the bone orchard.