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Elvis Presley and Puccini shall return.
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I woke up and one of us was crying.
Elvis Costello
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When they finally put you in the ground, I'll stand on your grave and tramp the dirt down.
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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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It's not crazy to want to have certain songs be developed harmonically and still want to make noise with the guitar. And you can have both.
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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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The radio is in the hands of such a lot of fools tryin' to anesthetize the way that you feel.
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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?
Elvis Costello
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You're drinking vintage Elvis Presley wine.
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I wish you luck with a capital F.
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History repeats the old conceits, the glib replies, the same defeats.
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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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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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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.
Elvis Costello
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I love you more than anything in this world. I don't expect that will last.
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The theme of exile is attractive to me, because it's sort of like the family business. Not just music, but travel.
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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.
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Good manners and bad breath will get you nowhere.
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Certain songs have been written years apart, but they have a natural continuity to my mind.
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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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You can be addicted to misery the same way as you can be addicted to drugs.
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The truth can't hurt you, it's just like the dark. It scares you witless, but in time you see things clear and stark.
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Serious music usually doesn't pay.
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People speak with enormous pomposity and arrogance about music.
Elvis Costello