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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.
Elvis Costello
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Elvis Costello
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: August 25
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Singer-Songwriter
London
England
Declan Patrick MacManus
Declan Patrick Aloysius MacManus
Declan MacManus
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I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies.
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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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When in doubt, play track 4 - it is usually the one you want.
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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 find it to be the ultimate backhanded compliment when you are compared against yourself.
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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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I woke up and one of us was crying.
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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.
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Songs are more powerful than books.
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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 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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Though the passion still flutters and flickers, it never got into our knickers.
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You think you're alone until you realize you're in it. Now fear is here to stay, love is here for a visit.
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It's the damage that we do and never know. It's the words that we don't say that scare me so.
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You need a platform upon which to release an orchestral record, otherwise it's just going to be an obscurity.
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I'm a working travelling musician, but just on a bigger scale...
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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.
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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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