Elvis Costello Quotes
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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.
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Those days she was just a beautiful girl, now she's framed and hung up.
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No use wishing now for any other sin.
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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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It's the stupid details that my heart is breaking for.
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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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When in doubt, play track 4 - it is usually the one you want.
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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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I've never had any real concern about posterity. I hope some people will be sorry when I'm not here, but I'm not playing for that.