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Elvis Costello
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: August 25
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London
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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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The truth can't hurt you, it's just like the dark. It scares you witless, but in time you see things clear and stark.
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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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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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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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I could promise that I'll always be true to you, but we may not live to be so old.
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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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People tend to repeat the same quotes at me that I said when I was 23. And of course, you say things then, and sometimes they're ill-advised.
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I've had an unusual life. A life far removed from most people's experience.
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The cost of living in sin would make a poor man out of Paul Getty.
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Certain songs have been written years apart, but they have a natural continuity to my mind.
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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'm drawing from two generations back how to think about music, how to think about why you travel to make music, what the possible pitfalls of that are for the way your life is structured. The good and bad of all of it get into the mix of what's created, what you're creating.
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Even in a perfect world where everyone was equal. I'd still own the film rights and be working on the sequel.
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I've never had any real concern about posterity. I hope some people will be sorry when I'm not here, but I'm not playing for that.
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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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The people with the most resources are the federal government. If you can invade a country halfway across the world in a matter of days, you can surely come to the aid of your own citizens in a shorter order of time.
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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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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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My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant.
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