Quote

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.

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
Song
Stills
Certain
Harmonically
Still
Developed
Make
Noise
Guitar
Songs
Crazy

More quotes by Elvis Costello

Image
Don't start me talking, I could talk all night. My mind goes sleepwalking while I'm putting the world right.
Elvis Costello
Image
You'll never be alone in the bone orchard.
Elvis Costello
Image
Some people can't physically hear things. A kid that listens to Metallica or something can't hear that, because he's filled himself up with this stuff, he physically can't hear a banjo or a harp or something.
Elvis Costello
Image
I've had an unusual life. A life far removed from most people's experience.
Elvis Costello
Image
Days of Dutch courage, just three French letters, and a German sense of humour.
Elvis Costello
Image
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.
Elvis Costello
Image
I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies.
Elvis Costello
Image
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
Elvis Costello
Image
The radio is in the hands of such a lot of fools tryin' to anesthetize the way that you feel.
Elvis Costello
Image
Songs are more powerful than books.
Elvis Costello
Image
You're drinking vintage Elvis Presley wine.
Elvis Costello
Image
I became an altar boy because of the solemn face, but I got thrown out at fourteen for laughing. Because the priest used to mumble everything except the church plate takings.
Elvis Costello
Image
There's no money back guarantee on future happiness.
Elvis Costello
Image
It's the stupid details that my heart is breaking for.
Elvis Costello
Image
Anything that has to travel all the way down from your cerebellum to your fingertips, there's a lot of things that can happen on the journey. Sometimes I'll listen to records, my own stuff, and I think god, the original idea for this was so much better than the mutation that we arrived at.
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
When in doubt, play track 4 - it is usually the one you want.
Elvis Costello
Image
I've always felt writing a song was a bit like going on location. That's true in an almost literal sense. Where you are seeps in somehow.
Elvis Costello
Image
You need a platform upon which to release an orchestral record, otherwise it's just going to be an obscurity.
Elvis Costello
Image
Life for me is about movement.
Elvis Costello