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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.
Elvis Costello
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Elvis Costello
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: August 25
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Anything that has to travel all the way down from your cerebellum to your fingertips, there's a lot of things that can happen on the journey. Sometimes I'll listen to records, my own stuff, and I think god, the original idea for this was so much better than the mutation that we arrived at.
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Why can't a man stand alone? Must he be burdened by all that he's taught to consider his own? His skin and his station, his kin and his crown, his flag and his nation They just weigh him down
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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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The cost of living in sin would make a poor man out of Paul Getty.
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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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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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I can write orchestrations, but I can't sight-read music and play at the same time. I don't have enough facility.
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When you work with new people, I think that it throws all of the matters into relief, because you have to explain yourself every time. It's like crossing a new border. They want to see your documents.
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Days of Dutch courage, just three French letters, and a German sense of humour.
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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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Good manners and bad breath will get you nowhere.
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I've been lucky to listen to lots of different types of music.
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I used to be disgusted now I try to be amused.
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Morrissey writes wonderful song titles, but sadly he often forgets to write the song.
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Songs are more powerful than books.
Elvis Costello
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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[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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