Elvis Costello Quotes
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Cause somewhere in the Quizling Clinic, there's a shorthand typist taking seconds over minutes.
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Patsy Cline belongs shoulder-to-shoulder with Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald.
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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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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 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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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 love you more than anything in this world. I don't expect that will last.
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You're drinking vintage Elvis Presley wine.
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I feel like a juggler running out of hands.
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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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Certain songs have been written years apart, but they have a natural continuity to my mind.
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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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If it wasn't for some acci-accidents, then some would never learn.
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Funny, now I can see, how looks can be deceiving.
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I knew I was in trouble, but I thought I was in hell.
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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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Imagination is a powerful deceiver.
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There's no money back guarantee on future happiness.
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When you're working with the same band you kind of know their style inside out, and even when you've been working for seven years with the same people, suddenly they'll do something you didn't even think they were capable of.
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The battle with the bottle is nothing so novel.
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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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Those days she was just a beautiful girl, now she's framed and hung up.
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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.