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History repeats the old conceits, the glib replies, the same defeats. — Elvis Costello

You swore you wouldn't shout. If it's not your punch, then it's your pout. — Elvis Costello

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

[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 think
And 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 strange
I don't know why
But somebody, somebody has to cry. — Elvis Costello

I can't say anymore than I love you. Anything else would be a waste of breath. — 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

Don't wear your heart on your sleeve when your remarks are off the cuff. — 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

There are many critics who have an idealised version of where my strengths lie. — Elvis Costello

Patsy Cline belongs shoulder-to-shoulder with Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald. — 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

Though the passion still flutters and flickers, it never got into our knickers. — 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

The only two things that motivate me and that matter to me are revenge
and guilt. — 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

The stuff I write I'm very proud of, but I'm smart enough to know I'll never get on the cover of 'Rolling Stone' next to Elvis Costello. — Dan Hill

Life for me is about movement. — Elvis Costello

She's no angel.
He's no saint. — Elvis Costello

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

There are a few things that I regret, but nothing that I need to forget. — 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

Those days she was just a beautiful girl, now she's framed and hung up. — 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

I could promise that I'll always be true to you, but we may not live to be so old. — 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

You do have to be a bit careful with your voice. It is an instrument. — 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

He's such a drag
He's not insane
It's just that everybody
Has to feel his pain. — 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

Elvis Costello's song writing is so peerless and individualistic. It's storytelling and it's deeply intelligent and clever. — Chip Esten

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

I'm not even sure what I want, but that's not the point - it's that I want it now. — 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 talking
I could talk all night
My mind goes sleepwalking
While I'm putting the world to right. — Elvis Costello

I've had an unusual life. A life far removed from most people's experience. — 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

Don't tell me you don't know what love is When you're old enough to know better. — Elvis Costello

Certain songs have been written years apart, but they have a natural continuity to my mind. — Elvis Costello

But there are things in Il Sogno that the methods of The Delivery Man could never achieve. — Elvis Costello