Elvis Costello Quotes
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What do we care, if the world is a joke? We'll give it a big kiss, we'll give it a poke. Death wears a big hat cause he's a big bloke.
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I could promise that I'll always be true to you, but we may not live to be so old.
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Nonsense prevails, modesty fails Grace and virtue turn into stupidity While the calendar fades almost all barricades to a pale compromise And our leaders have feasts on the backsides of beasts They still think they're the gods of antiquity If something you missed didn't even exist It was just an ideal is it such a surprise?
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Your mind is made up but your mouth is undone.
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Certain songs have been written years apart, but they have a natural continuity to my mind.
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I'm goin' to take a little trip, down paradise's endless shores. They say that travel broadens the mind, till you can't get your head out of doors.
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Commercial radio is owned by one or two corporations now, and they're not in the music business. They're in the advertising business.... So let's not kid ourselves. If you want to hear music, go buy a guitar.
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I'm not going to get too sentimental, like those other sticker valentines, 'cause I don't know if you are loving some body. I only know it isn't mine.
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Good manners and bad breath will get you nowhere.
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People speak with enormous pomposity and arrogance about music.
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You think you're alone until you realize you're in it. Now fear is here to stay, love is here for a visit.
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History repeats the old conceits, the glib replies, the same defeats.
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Now I just don't know who to tell to go to hell Who put the old devil in the distorted angel?
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I really thought twice about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame when that came in. I always was of a mind that it's an inherently stupid idea to put something like that in a glass case.
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My dad had a steady job with a really major dance band from '54 till '68, and then quit because he wanted to play different music. He wanted to sing about peace. He believed in these things.
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Patsy Cline belongs shoulder-to-shoulder with Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald.
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The cost of living in sin would make a poor man out of Paul Getty.
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I just got into it like a lot of people through the rock 'n' roll bands in the late '60s that turned to country music, like The Byrds and Buffalo Springfield, but particularly through The Byrds because of Gram Parsons, Roger McGuinn and Chris Hillman (with their 1968 album Sweetheart of the Rodeo). They kind of introduced English kids to Merle Haggard and George Jones and the Louvins (brothers Charlie and Ira).
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There are a lot of things that you can like at a distance without spending a huge amount of time pondering. It's not so complicated.
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I wish you luck with a capital F.
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It's the damage that we do and never know. It's the words that we don't say that scare me so.
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I love you more than anything in this world. I don't expect that will last.
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Morrissey writes wonderful song titles, but sadly he often forgets to write the song.
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If I am frightened then I can hide it If I am crying, I'll call it laughter If I am haunted, I'll call it my imaginary friend If I am bleeding I'll call it wine But if you leave me then I am broken And if I'm broken then only death remains.