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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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.
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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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The wages of sin are an expensive infection.
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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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The long arm of the law slides up the outskirts of town.
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No use wishing now for any other sin.
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When in doubt, play track 4 - it is usually the one you want.