Elvis Costello Quotes - Page 5

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• She's filing her nails while they are dragging the lake.

  Elvis Costello

  Lakes, Evil, Nails

  Song: Watching The Detectives, Album: My Aim Is True, 1977

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• What do we care, if the world is a joke? We'll give it a big kiss, we'll give it a poke. Death wears a big hat cause he's a big bloke.

  Elvis Costello

  Death, Kissing, Giving

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• Turn up the TV. No one listening will suspect, even your mother won't detect it, no your father won't know. they think that I've got no respect but everything means less than zero.

  Elvis Costello

  Mother, Zero, Father

  Song: Less Than Zero, Album: My Aim Is True, 1977

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• For all the courage that we never had, I'm just about glad.

  Elvis Costello

  Philosophy, Glad

  Song: Just About Glad, Album: Brutal Youth, 1994

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• Good manners and bad breath will get you nowhere.

  Elvis Costello

  Manners, Good Manners, Breaths

  Elvis Costello (2015). “Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink”, p.53, Penguin

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• Sometimes I almost feel just like a human being.

  Elvis Costello

  Feels Just, Low Self Esteem, Sometimes

  Song: Lipstick Vogue, Album: This Year's Model, 1978

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• Life for me is about movement.

  Elvis Costello

  Movement

  "Elvis Costello: 'I've never liked the word maturity. It implies decay'". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2010.

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• There was not a lot of rock n roll in the house. Our parents didnt think it was very groovy, and I tend to agree with them. If you grew up with Charlie Parker, Bill Haley wasnt very hip.

  Elvis Costello

  Thinking, Rocks, House

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• I love you more than anything in this world. I don't expect that will last.

  Elvis Costello

  Funny, I Love You More, Humor

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• I've had an unusual life. A life far removed from most people's experience.

  Elvis Costello

  People, Unusual

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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

  Elvis Costello

  Laughter, Wine, Broken

  Song: Broken O'riordan, Album: Mighty Like A Rose, 1991

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• Sometimes I write notes that I have difficulty singing.

  Elvis Costello

  Writing, Singing, Sometimes

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• It's a petty thing, but I wouldn't join the Scouts when I was a kid, 'cause you had to swear allegiance to the queen. I'm just not a royalist. I think it's idiotic, a hereditary principle.

  Elvis Costello

  Queens, Kids, Thinking

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• Now I just don't know who to tell to go to hell Who put the old devil in the distorted angel?

  Elvis Costello

  Angel, Devil, Hell

  Song: Distorted Angel, Album: All This Useless Beauty, 1996

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• I've always felt writing a song was a bit like going on location. That's true in an almost literal sense. Where you are seeps in somehow.

  Elvis Costello

  Song, Writing, Location

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• I'm a working travelling musician, but just on a bigger scale...

  Elvis Costello

  Musician, Bigger, Scales

  "Elvis Costello: 'I've never liked the word maturity. It implies decay'". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2010.

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• I get very frustrated by this term 'genre exercise.' I mean, what exactly is that? Genre is not really relevant when you are writing a song; hopefully you are doing it to explore something, to create something, and I don't agree that any of my albums are genre exercises.

  Elvis Costello

  Song, Writing, Mean

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• Mention Hubert Sumlin, as well, because Hubert's a great man, and again, you know, I don't play the guitar very good, but when I'm playing this kind of music, I always have him in my mind. I wish I could play like Hubert.

  Elvis Costello

  Men, Guitar, Play

  "Elvis Costello: Interview And Music". Interview with Brian Wise, www.elviscostello.info. October 4, 2004.

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• I don't think I was ever particularly mean. I can certainly think of some idiotic exchanges I've had. I was accused of destroying pop music, like Wagner destroyed opera - a guy in Germany started ranting that at me.

  Elvis Costello

  Mean, Thinking, Guy

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• The Internet is overrated. It's much smaller an innovation than people think it is. I don't think it's changed the way anybody makes music.

  Elvis Costello

  Thinking, People, Innovation

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• 'Content' is a word that has never sat well with me. Like 'maturity'. They are two words I've never liked. I think they imply some sort of decay. A settling.

  Elvis Costello

  Maturity, Thinking, Two

  "Elvis Costello: 'I've never liked the word maturity. It implies decay'" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2010.

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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.

  Elvis Costello

  Enemy, Radio, Mortal Enemies

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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).

  Elvis Costello

  Country, Brother, Kids

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• You'll never be alone in the bone orchard.

  Elvis Costello

  Bones, Orchard

  Song: Beyond Belief, Album: Imperial Bedroom, 1982

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• But there are things in Il Sogno that the methods of The Delivery Man could never achieve.

  Elvis Costello

  Men, Achieve, Method

  Interview with Brian Wise, www.elviscostello.info. April 10, 2004.

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