Elvis Costello Quotes
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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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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'm not even sure what I want, but that's not the point - it's that I want it now.
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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 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 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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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.