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Days of Dutch courage, just three French letters, and a German sense of humour.

Elvis Costello

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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
Courage
Expression
Days
Sense
Dutch
Three
Humour
German
French
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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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Songs are more powerful than books.
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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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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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Music is more like water than a rhinoceros. It doesn't charge madly down one path. It runs away in every direction.
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Clowntime is over Time to take cover While others just talk and talk Somebody's watching where the others don't walk.
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If I am frightened then I can hide it If I am crying, I'll call it laughter If I am haunted, I'll call it my imaginary friend If I am bleeding I'll call it wine But if you leave me then I am broken And if I'm broken then only death remains
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I feel like a juggler running out of hands.
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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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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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My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant, someone who disrupts the daily drag of life just enough to leave the victim thinking there's maybe more to it all than the mere hum-drum quality of existence.
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I wanna bite the hand that feeds me. I wanna bite that hand so badly. I want to make them wish they'd never seen me.
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I've had an unusual life. A life far removed from most people's experience.
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And obviously, when I started out, I had a little bit more curiosity than some, and went seeking out the original artists, or in some cases searching up country music.
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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.
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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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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'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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Good manners and bad breath will get you nowhere.
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Your mind is made up but your mouth is undone.
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