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People tend to repeat the same quotes at me that I said when I was 23. And of course, you say things then, and sometimes they're ill-advised.

Elvis Costello

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Elvis Costello
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: August 25
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Declan Patrick MacManus
Declan Patrick Aloysius MacManus
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Those days she was just a beautiful girl, now she's framed and hung up.
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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
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I'm drawing from two generations back how to think about music, how to think about why you travel to make music, what the possible pitfalls of that are for the way your life is structured. The good and bad of all of it get into the mix of what's created, what you're creating.
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You need a platform upon which to release an orchestral record, otherwise it's just going to be an obscurity.
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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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But there are things in Il Sogno that the methods of The Delivery Man could never achieve.
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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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I became an altar boy because of the solemn face, but I got thrown out at fourteen for laughing. Because the priest used to mumble everything except the church plate takings.
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I'm a man with a mission in two or three editions And I'm giving you a longing look Everyday, everyday, everyday I write the book.
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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.
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It's the damage that we do and never know. It's the words that we don't say that scare me so.
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Clowntime is over Time to take cover While others just talk and talk Somebody's watching where the others don't walk.
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When you work with new people, I think that it throws all of the matters into relief, because you have to explain yourself every time. It's like crossing a new border. They want to see your documents.
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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.
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Obviously I got known for some other songs early on, and some of those were rock'n'roll songs. Some of them were melodic pop songs. And I've done lots of different things, as you know, but every so often I get drawn back.
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I wish you luck with a capital F.
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I find it to be the ultimate backhanded compliment when you are compared against yourself.
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Happiness isn't a fortune in a cookie. It's deeper, wider, funnier, and more transporting than that.
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I've had an unusual life. A life far removed from most people's experience.
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The cost of living in sin would make a poor man out of Paul Getty.
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