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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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She said she was working for the ABC news, it was as much of the alphabet as she knew how to use.
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I can't say anymore than I love you. Anything else would be a waste of breath.
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There's so many people to see. So many people to check up on and add to your collection.
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It's what I do. I don't deserve any awards for this, it's just music. It's just writing songs. You sit down, you write a song, you record it. You tour and play the songs live, dress them up a bit differently, or dress them down.
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The radio is in the hands of such a lot of fools tryin' to anesthetize the way that you feel.
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I mistrust these people in music industry who can be everybody. This is where technology dictates to them. I mistrust that, that in somehow the chips capture the soul of a player, that's patent nonsense.
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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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Those days she was just a beautiful girl, now she's framed and hung up.
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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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Smokey Robinson writes the heartfelt songs, whereas it was my job to write the songs about weakness and failure in love.
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It's what's on the record not what labels on it. You know, that's like getting a box of cornflakes and eating the cardboard.
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My dad had a steady job with a really major dance band from '54 till '68, and then quit because he wanted to play different music. He wanted to sing about peace. He believed in these things.
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Life for me is about movement.
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I'm just the mere shadow of my former selfishness. I crave the silhouette of your kiss.
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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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Sometimes I write notes that I have difficulty singing.
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Obviously the people that I admired, like the Beatles, were really into rock'n'roll, but it was already a little past rock'n'roll when I started listening and making my own choices about music.
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It's the stupid details that my heart is breaking for.
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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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The cost of living in sin would make a poor man out of Paul Getty.
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