Elvis Costello Quotes
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If it wasn't for some acci-accidents, then some would never learn.
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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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When they finally put you in the ground, I'll stand on your grave and tramp the dirt down.
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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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When you work with new people, I think that it throws all of the matters into relief, because you have to explain yourself every time. It's like crossing a new border. They want to see your documents.
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I wish you luck with a capital F.
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You're drinking vintage Elvis Presley wine.
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There are a few things that I regret, but nothing that I need to forget.
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Funny, now I can see, how looks can be deceiving.
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Commercial radio is absolutely the enemy of music. They are my sworn and mortal enemy, and I will have nothing to do with them.
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Cause somewhere in the Quizling Clinic, there's a shorthand typist taking seconds over minutes.
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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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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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Those days she was just a beautiful girl, now she's framed and hung up.
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I feel like a juggler running out of hands.
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The battle with the bottle is nothing so novel.
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You must hold on to the sort of finger-painting aspect of music. That's something I learned, particularly from listening to Neil Young. Tom Waits is another one, because Tom's music is incredibly sophisticated and beautifully arranged, but he's using a toolbox that's unlike anybody else's.
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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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She pulls the eyes out with a face like a magnet.
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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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I knew I was in trouble, but I thought I was in hell.
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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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The way you look I understand how you were not impressed, but I heard you let that little friend of mine take off your party dress.
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Imagination is a powerful deceiver.