Quote

It's the damage that we do and never know. It's the words that we don't say that scare me so.

Elvis Costello

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

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
Scare
Damage
Words
Never

More quotes by Elvis Costello

Image
I used to be disgusted now I try to be amused.
Elvis Costello
Image
Elvis Presley and Puccini shall return.
Elvis Costello
Image
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
Elvis Costello
Image
You'll never be alone in the bone orchard.
Elvis Costello
Image
Now I just don't know who to tell to go to hell Who put the old devil in the distorted angel?
Elvis Costello
Image
Days of Dutch courage, just three French letters, and a German sense of humour.
Elvis Costello
Image
When they finally put you in the ground, I'll stand on your grave and tramp the dirt down.
Elvis Costello
Image
I can't say anymore than I love you. Anything else would be a waste of breath.
Elvis Costello
Image
Music is more like water than a rhinoceros. It doesn't charge madly down one path. It runs away in every direction.
Elvis Costello
Image
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
Image
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.
Elvis Costello
Image
Oh I used to be disgusted and now I try to be amused. But since their wings have got rusted, you know, the angels wanna wear my red shoes.
Elvis Costello
Image
The Internet is overrated. It's much smaller an innovation than people think it is. I don't think it's changed the way anybody makes music.
Elvis Costello
Image
My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant.
Elvis Costello
Image
She said she was working for the ABC news, it was as much of the alphabet as she knew how to use.
Elvis Costello
Image
Don't tell me you don't know what love is When you're old enough to know better.
Elvis Costello
Image
I could promise that I'll always be true to you, but we may not live to be so old.
Elvis Costello
Image
The cost of living in sin would make a poor man out of Paul Getty.
Elvis Costello
Image
Your mind is made up but your mouth is undone.
Elvis Costello
Image
I've had an unusual life. A life far removed from most people's experience.
Elvis Costello