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