Elvis Costello Quotes About Music

Quotes about: Music

• Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's really a stupid thing to want to do.

  Elvis Costello

  Music, Stupid, Writing

• My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant.

  Elvis Costello

  Music, Reality, Life Is

  "New Music Express" interview with Nick Kent, 1978.

• There are five things to write songs about: I'm leaving you. You're leaving me. I want you. You don't want me. I believe in something. Five subjects, and 12 notes. For all that, we musicians do pretty well.

  Elvis Costello

  Music, Song, Believe

• Songs are more powerful than books.

  Elvis Costello

  Music, Song, Powerful

  "Elvis Costello: What I've Learned" by Tom Junod, www.esquire.com. November 2003.

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