Elvis Costello Quotes
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Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's really a stupid thing to want to do.
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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'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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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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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'm a working travelling musician, but just on a bigger scale.
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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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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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There's so many people to see. So many people to check up on and add to your collection.
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I've had an unusual life. A life far removed from most people's experience.
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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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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.
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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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Women hear rhythm differently than men.
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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 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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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'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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Don't wear your heart on your sleeve when your remarks are off the cuff.
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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.
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You'll never be alone in the bone orchard.