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Elvis Costello
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: August 25
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Guitarist
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Singer-Songwriter
London
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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 damage that we do and never know. It's the words that we don't say that scare me so.
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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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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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I find humming is very useful.
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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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Elvis Presley and Puccini shall return.
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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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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.
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It's not crazy to want to have certain songs be developed harmonically and still want to make noise with the guitar. And you can have both.
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Women hear rhythm differently than men.
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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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Now I just don't know who to tell to go to hell Who put the old devil in the distorted angel?
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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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I used to be disgusted now I try to be amused.
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I've never felt British. I'm just not interested in national identity. I don't know why.
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Morrissey writes wonderful song titles, but sadly he often forgets to write the song.
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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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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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