Elvis Costello Quotes
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What do we care, if the world is a joke? We'll give it a big kiss, we'll give it a poke. Death wears a big hat cause he's a big bloke.
— Elvis Costello
Your mind is made up but your mouth is undone.
— Elvis Costello
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[Commercial] radio is absolutely the enemy of music. They are my sworn and mortal enemy, and I will have nothing to do with them.
— Elvis Costello
S you check your effects, check your reflection,I'm so affected in the face of your affection — Elvis Costello
So don't try to touch my heart, it's darker than you thinkAnd don't try to read my mind because it's full of disappearing ink — Elvis Costello
Morrissey writes wonderful song titles, but sadly he often forgets to write the song.
— Elvis Costello
Sometimes I wonder if we're livin' in the same land.Why do you wanna be my friend
when I feel like a juggler
running out of hands? — Elvis Costello
Life is so strangeI don't know why
But somebody, somebody has to cry. — Elvis Costello
I took my better nature out, drowned it in a babbling stream/took the blossom of my youth and blew it all to smithereens.
— Elvis Costello
Was it a millionaire who said, "Imagine no possessions"?
— Elvis Costello
I'm goin' to take a little trip, down paradise's endless shores. They say that travel broadens the mind, till you can't get your head out of doors.
— Elvis Costello
If it wasn't for some acci-accidents, then some would never learn.
— Elvis Costello
Well, 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
I've never felt British. I'm just not interested in national identity. I don't know why.
— Elvis Costello
The radio is in the hands of such a lot of fools tryin' to anesthetize the way that you feel.
— Elvis Costello
Women hear rhythm differently than men.
— Elvis Costello
I've worked hard, every single day since I left school. I think I have a Protestant work ethic.
— Elvis Costello
Oh, I know that she's disgusted,cause she's feeling so abused.
She gets tired of the lust,
but it's so hard to refuse. — Elvis Costello
Imagination is a powerful deceiver.
— Elvis Costello
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
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
In the tiny torn up pieces of his mind he's irresistible too.
— Elvis Costello
We've always had a lot of different influences and we've always liked catchy music from the Beatles to Cheap Trick to Elvis Costello.
— Chuck Comeau
I find humming is very useful.
— Elvis Costello
Smokey Robinson writes the heartfelt songs, whereas it was my job to write the songs about weakness and failure in love.
— Elvis Costello
She's filing her nails while they are dragging the lake.
— Elvis Costello
You've got a chemistry class; I want a piece of your mind;You don't know what you started when you mixed it up with mine ... — Elvis Costello
I don't wanna be a lover,I just wanna be your victim. — Elvis Costello
The way you look I understand how you were not impressed, but I heard you let that little friend of mine take off your party dress.
— Elvis Costello
Cause somewhere in the Quizling Clinic, there's a shorthand typist taking seconds over minutes.
— Elvis Costello
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.
— Elvis Costello
Even in a perfect world, where everyone was equal I'd still own the film rights and be working on the sequal
— Elvis Costello
Now I just don't know who to tell to go to hell Who put the old devil in the distorted angel?
— Elvis Costello
Songs are more powerful than books.
— Elvis Costello
She said she was working for the ABC news, it was as much of the alphabet as she knew how to use.
— Elvis Costello
I'm not going to get too sentimental, like those other sticker valentines, 'cause I don't know if you are loving some body. I only know it isn't mine.
— Elvis Costello
Life for me is about movement.
— Elvis Costello
She's no angel.He's no saint. — Elvis Costello
These are the sort of things that push you on in music - the curiosity, a passion for new ideas.
— Elvis Costello
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's really a stupid thing to want to do.
— Elvis Costello
Elvis Presley and Puccini shall return.
— Elvis Costello
I think when I was younger I was not very good at writing love songs that didn't have a twist.
— Elvis Costello
Funny, now I can see, how looks can be deceiving.
— Elvis Costello
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
Well, I used to be disgusted.Now I try to be amused. — Elvis Costello
She pulls the eyes out with a face like a magnet.
— Elvis Costello
Living a very long time would be a very scary thing.
— Elvis Costello
Theres so many fish in the sea That only rise up in the sweat and smoke like mercury
— Elvis Costello
You're drinking vintage Elvis Presley wine.
— Elvis Costello
Oh, I said 'I'm so happy, I could die.'She said 'Drop dead,' then left with another guy. — Elvis Costello
Sometimes I almost feel just like a human being.
— Elvis Costello
I wish you luck with a capital "F".
— Elvis Costello
I'm a working travelling musician, but just on a bigger scale.
— Elvis Costello
It's the damage that we do and never know. It's the words that we don't say that scare me so.
— Elvis Costello
No use wishing now for any other sin.
— Elvis Costello
I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies.
— Elvis Costello
Sometimes I wish that I could stop you from talking, when I hear the silly things that you say.
— Elvis Costello
I woke up and one of us was crying.
— Elvis Costello
There's a girl here and She's almost you...
— Elvis Costello
For all the courage that we never had, I'm just about glad.
— Elvis Costello
Elvis Costello had a brand new bag. He was a musician, but he knew all about the attitude part of it.
— Nick Lowe
Somebody should clip Sting around the head and tell him to stop using that ridiculous Jamaican accent.
— Elvis Costello
It's a breath you took too late.It's a death that's worse than fate. — Elvis Costello
Clowntime is over Time to take cover While others just talk and talk Somebody's watching where the others don't walk.
— Elvis Costello
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.
— Elvis Costello
I'm a man with a mission in two or three editions And I'm giving you a longing look Everyday, everyday, everyday I write the book.
— Elvis Costello
My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant.
— Elvis Costello
It's a dangerous game that comedy plays. Sometimes it tells you the truth; sometimes it delays it.
— Elvis Costello
Well there's a line that you must toe and it'll soon be time to go but it's darker than you know in those Complicated Shadows
— Elvis Costello
When they finally put you in the ground, I'll stand on your grave and tramp the dirt down.
— Elvis Costello
What's so funny about peace, love and understanding
— Elvis Costello
Sleeping with forgiveness in your heart for me.
— Elvis Costello
Serious music usually doesn't pay.
— Elvis Costello
I knew I was in trouble, but I thought I was in hell.
— Elvis Costello
And I don't feel any form of music is beyond me in the sense of that I don't understand it or I don't have some love for some part of it.
— Elvis Costello
Don't start me talkingI could talk all night
My mind goes sleepwalking
While I'm putting the world to right. — Elvis Costello
You need a platform upon which to release an orchestral record, otherwise it's just going to be an obscurity.
— Elvis Costello
Sometimes I write notes that I have difficulty singing.
— Elvis Costello
Death wears a big hat.
— Elvis Costello
