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Songs are more powerful than books.

Elvis Costello

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Elvis Costello
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: August 25
Composer
Guitarist
Record Producer
Singer-Songwriter
London
England
Declan Patrick MacManus
Declan Patrick Aloysius MacManus
Declan MacManus
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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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The cost of living in sin would make a poor man out of Paul Getty.
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I find humming is very useful.
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What do we care, if the world is a joke? We'll give it a big kiss, we'll give it a poke. Death wears a big hat cause he's a big bloke.
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Good manners and bad breath will get you nowhere.
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My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant, someone who disrupts the daily drag of life just enough to leave the victim thinking there's maybe more to it all than the mere hum-drum quality of existence.
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It's a dangerous game that comedy plays. Sometimes it tells you the truth sometimes it delays it.
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I love you more than anything in this world. I don't expect that will last.
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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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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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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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Certain songs have been written years apart, but they have a natural continuity to my mind.
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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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There was not a lot of rock n roll in the house. Our parents didnt think it was very groovy, and I tend to agree with them. If you grew up with Charlie Parker, Bill Haley wasnt very hip.
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I could promise that I'll always be true to you, but we may not live to be so old.
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I'm a working travelling musician, but just on a bigger scale...
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I've always felt writing a song was a bit like going on location. That's true in an almost literal sense. Where you are seeps in somehow.
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