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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.

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
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Music
Charge
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Water
Running
Away
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