298 Quotes by Elvis Costello

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    If it wasn’t for some acci-accidents, then some would never learn.

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    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.

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    Obviously I got known for some other songs early on, and some of those were rock’n’roll songs. Some of them were melodic pop songs. And I’ve done lots of different things, as you know, but every so often I get drawn back.

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

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    Don’t start me talking, I could talk all night. My mind goes sleepwalking while I’m putting the world right.

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    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.

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    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.

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    In the tiny torn up pieces of his mind he’s irresistible too.

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