Quote

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

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
Hope
Real
Never
People
Posterity
Sorry
Concern
Playing

More quotes by Elvis Costello

Image
I wish you luck with a capital F.
Elvis Costello
Image
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.
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
You must hold on to the sort of finger-painting aspect of music. That's something I learned, particularly from listening to Neil Young. Tom Waits is another one, because Tom's music is incredibly sophisticated and beautifully arranged, but he's using a toolbox that's unlike anybody else's.
Elvis Costello
Image
Even in a perfect world where everyone was equal. I'd still own the film rights and be working on the sequel.
Elvis Costello
Image
I'm a working travelling musician, but just on a bigger scale...
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
I feel like a juggler running out of hands.
Elvis Costello
Image
Songs are more powerful than books.
Elvis Costello
Image
Happiness isn't a fortune in a cookie. It's deeper, wider, funnier, and more transporting than that.
Elvis Costello
Image
You're drinking vintage Elvis Presley wine.
Elvis Costello
Image
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.
Elvis Costello
Image
I've had an unusual life. A life far removed from most people's experience.
Elvis Costello
Image
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.
Elvis Costello
Image
I could promise that I'll always be true to you, but we may not live to be so old.
Elvis Costello
Image
Theres so many fish in the sea That only rise up in the sweat and smoke like mercury
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 can write orchestrations, but I can't sight-read music and play at the same time. I don't have enough facility.
Elvis Costello
Image
There's so many people to see. So many people to check up on and add to your collection.
Elvis Costello
Image
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.
Elvis Costello