Elvis Costello Quotes
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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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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 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 few things that I regret, but nothing that I need to forget.
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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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You're drinking vintage Elvis Presley wine.
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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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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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Certain songs have been written years apart, but they have a natural continuity to my mind.
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I feel like a juggler running out of hands.
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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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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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Those days she was just a beautiful girl, now she's framed and hung up.
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She pulls the eyes out with a face like a magnet.
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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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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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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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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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The battle with the bottle is nothing so novel.
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There's no money back guarantee on future happiness.
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Imagination is a powerful deceiver.