298 Quotes by Elvis Costello

Cook was then very handsome in a fey English way and dressed in floor-length, striped djellaba. In the role of the dead-eyed Spiggott, he intoned lines like “You fill me with inertia,” while appearing utterly indifferent to the beauties who danced in attendance. It was a scene that might have provided the basic blueprint for what would later become the Pet Shop Boys’ career.

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.

And I’m up while the dawn is breaking, even though my heart is aching. I should be drinking a toast to absent friends instead of these comedians.

There are some things you can’t cover up with lipstick and powder.

The theme of exile is attractive to me, because it’s sort of like the family business. Not just music, but travel.

Music is more like water than a rhinoceros. It doesn’t charge madly down one path. It runs away in every direction.

She’s filing her nails while they are dragging the lake.

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.

There are a lot of things that you can like at a distance without spending a huge amount of time pondering. It’s not so complicated.