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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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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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Don't start me talking, I could talk all night. My mind goes sleepwalking while I'm putting the world right.
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I woke up and one of us was crying.
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And over the last ten years, after my work with the Brodsky Quartet, I had the opportunity to write arrangements for chamber group, chamber orchestra, jazz orchestra, symphony orchestra even.
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I've had a lot of different experiences in music over the years.And not everything you do can satisfy everybody's idealised version of you.
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When they finally put you in the ground, I'll stand on your grave and tramp the dirt down.
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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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I find humming is very useful.
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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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Days of Dutch courage, just three French letters, and a German sense of humour.
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There's no money back guarantee on future happiness.
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I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies.
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When in doubt, play track 4 - it is usually the one you want.
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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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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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As I walk through This wicked world Searchin' for light in the darkness of insanity, I ask myself Is all hope lost? Is there only pain and hatred, and misery? And each time I feel like this inside, There's one thing I wanna know: What's so funny 'bout Peace, Love, & Understanding?
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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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Women hear rhythm differently than men.
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The cost of living in sin would make a poor man out of Paul Getty.
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It's the stupid details that my heart is breaking for.
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