Elvis Costello Quotes
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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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I could promise that I'll always be true to you, but we may not live to be so old.
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I can write orchestrations, but I can't sight-read music and play at the same time. I don't have enough facility.
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My dad's father was a White Star Line trumpet player in the '20s. It shaped the way that I think about music. My grandfather was classically trained, military trained. He was an orphan who ended up in the Military School of Music in Kneller Hall.
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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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Morrissey writes wonderful song titles, but sadly he often forgets to write the song.
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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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There are a few things that I regret, but nothing that I need to forget.
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I can't say anymore than I love you. Anything else would be a waste of breath.
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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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There are five things to write songs about: I'm leaving you. You're leaving me. I want you. You don't want me. I believe in something. Five subjects, and 12 notes. For all that, we musicians do pretty well.
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I love you more than anything in this world. I don't expect that will last.
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I wish you luck with a capital F.
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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 it wasn't for some acci-accidents, then some would never learn.
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Cause somewhere in the Quizling Clinic, there's a shorthand typist taking seconds over minutes.
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The long arm of the law slides up the outskirts of town.
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Serious music usually doesn't pay.
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Anything that has to travel all the way down from your cerebellum to your fingertips, there's a lot of things that can happen on the journey. Sometimes I'll listen to records, my own stuff, and I think god, the original idea for this was so much better than the mutation that we arrived at.
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Funny, now I can see, how looks can be deceiving.
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I feel like a juggler running out of hands.
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As I walk through This wicked world Searchin' for light in the darkness of insanity, I ask myself Is all hope lost? Is there only pain and hatred, and misery? And each time I feel like this inside, There's one thing I wanna know: What's so funny 'bout Peace, Love, & Understanding?
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Well there's a line that you must toe and it'll soon be time to go but it's darker than you know in those Complicated Shadows.
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The wages of sin are an expensive infection.