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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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Guitarist
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London
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Declan Patrick MacManus
Declan Patrick Aloysius MacManus
Declan MacManus
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They say you better listen to the voice of reason But they don't give you any choice 'cause they think that it's treason. So you had better do as you are told. You better listen to the radio.
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My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant.
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Your mind is made up but your mouth is undone.
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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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It's not crazy to want to have certain songs be developed harmonically and still want to make noise with the guitar. And you can have both.
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No use wishing now for any other sin.
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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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Certain songs have been written years apart, but they have a natural continuity to my mind.
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Those days she was just a beautiful girl, now she's framed and hung up.
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Sometimes I write notes that I have difficulty singing. And you start talking yourself out of the bold melody and start wanting to arrange it in another key or something. Maybe I just never learned my harmony part, because what everybody says sounds odd to them sounds perfectly natural to me.
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Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's really a stupid thing to want to do.
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