Elvis Costello Quotes

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• I used to be disgusted; now I try to be amused.

  Elvis Costello

  Inspirational, Life, Bullying

  Song: Red Shoes

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• 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

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• I wish you luck with a capital F.

  Elvis Costello

  Luck, Wish, Wish You

  Song: Love Went Mad, Album: Punch the Clock, 1983

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

  Elvis Costello

  Music, Reality, Life Is

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

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• I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies.

  Elvis Costello

  Believe, Passion, Curiosity

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• When in doubt, play track 4 - it is usually the one you want.

  Elvis Costello

  Play, Track, Advice

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• 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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• Music is more like water than a rhinoceros. It doesn't charge madly down one path. It runs away in every direction.

  Elvis Costello

  Running, Water, Path

  "Brilliant Mistakes" by Nick Paumgarten, www.newyorker.com. November 8, 2010.

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• You can be addicted to misery the same way as you can be addicted to drugs.

  Elvis Costello

  Drug, Way, Misery

  "For Elvis Costello, eclectic taste and self-reinvention started at home". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. November 2, 2015.

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• Don't wear your heart on your sleeve when your remarks are off the cuff.

  Elvis Costello

  Heart, Cuffs, Sleeves

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• I can't say anymore than I love you. Anything else would be a waste of breath.

  Elvis Costello

  Love, Marriage, Would Be

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• Somebody should clip Sting around the head and tell him to stop using that ridiculous Jamaican accent.

  Elvis Costello

  Ridiculous, Jamaicans, Should

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• Was it a millionaire who said, "Imagine no possessions"?

  Elvis Costello

  Imagine, Said, Millionaire

  Song: The Other Side of Summer, Album: Mighty Like A Rose, 1991

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• The people with the most resources are the federal government. If you can invade a country halfway across the world in a matter of days, you can surely come to the aid of your own citizens in a shorter order of time.

  Elvis Costello

  Country, Government, Order

  "Real Time with Bill Maher (Episode #4.13)". Talk-Show, August 25, 2006.

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• History repeats the old conceits, the glib replies, the same defeats.

  Elvis Costello

  Future, Defeat, Premonition

  Song: Beyond Belief, Album: Imperial Bedroom, 1982

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• As I walk through This wicked world Searchin' for light in the darkness of insanity, I ask myself Is all hope lost? Is there only pain and hatred, and misery? And each time I feel like this inside, There's one thing I wanna know: What's so funny 'bout Peace, Love, & Understanding?

  Elvis Costello

  Pain, Light, Hatred

  Song: Peace, Love And Understanding

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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.

  Elvis Costello

  Want

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• Oh I used to be disgusted and now I try to be amused. But since their wings have got rusted, you know, the angels wanna wear my red shoes.

  Elvis Costello

  Angel, Wings, Shoes

  Song: (the Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes, Album: My Aim Is True

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• Women hear rhythm differently than men.

  Elvis Costello

  Men, Gender, Rhythm

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• I started with rock n' roll and...then you start to take it apart like a child with a toy and you see there's blues and there's country...Then you go back from country into American music...and you end up in Scotland and Ireland eventually.

  Elvis Costello

  Country, Children, Rocks

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• And I don't feel any form of music is beyond me in the sense of that I don't understand it or I don't have some love for some part of it.

  Elvis Costello

  Form, Music Is, Feels

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

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• Don't start me talking, I could talk all night. My mind goes sleepwalking while I'm putting the world right.

  Elvis Costello

  Peace, Night, Talking

  Elvis Costello (2015). “Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink Deluxe”, p.34, Penguin

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• The radio is in the hands of such a lot of fools tryin' to anesthetize the way that you feel.

  Elvis Costello

  Hands, Radio, Way

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• Happiness isn't a fortune in a cookie. It's deeper, wider, funnier, and more transporting than that.

  Elvis Costello

  Cookies, Fortune, Deeper

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

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• Maybe I just never learned my harmony part, because what everybody says sounds odd to them sounds perfectly natural to me.

  Elvis Costello

  Sound, Perfectly Natural, Odd

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