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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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Songs are more powerful than books.
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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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Don't tell me you don't know what love is When you're old enough to know better.
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I've never felt British. I'm just not interested in national identity. I don't know why.
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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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You think you're alone until you realize you're in it. Now fear is here to stay, love is here for a visit.
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I think when I was younger I was not very good at writing love songs that didn't have a twist.
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I used to be disgusted now I try to be amused.
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Good manners and bad breath will get you nowhere.
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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.
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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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I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies.
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Those days she was just a beautiful girl, now she's framed and hung up.
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Your mind is made up but your mouth is undone.
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You've got a chemistry class I want a piece of your mind You don't know what you started when you mixed it up with mine.
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I wanna bite the hand that feeds me. I wanna bite that hand so badly. I want to make them wish they'd never seen me.
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[Commercial radio] is owned by one or two corporations now, and they're not in the music business. They're in the advertising business.... So let's not kid ourselves. If you want to hear music, go buy a guitar.
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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.
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I'm not going to get too sentimental, like those other sticker valentines, 'cause I don't know if you are loving some body. I only know it isn't mine.
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The cost of living in sin would make a poor man out of Paul Getty.
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