298 Quotes by Elvis Costello

When they finally put you in the ground, I’ll stand on your grave and tramp the dirt down.

There’s a girl here and She’s almost you...

When you’re working with the same band you kind of know their style inside out, and even when you’ve been working for seven years with the same people, suddenly they’ll do something you didn’t even think they were capable of.

I think records started getting better again because everyone was dropping that tedious pose that there was no past. You could hear that The Clash were raiding their record collections for anything that they could turn into new songs.

There is something wrong with you if you don’t get angry about something.

Turn up the TV. No one listening will suspect, even your mother won’t detect it, no your father won’t know. they think that I’ve got no respect but everything means less than zero.

My dad had a steady job with a really major dance band from ’54 till ’68, and then quit because he wanted to play different music. He wanted to sing about peace. He believed in these things.

I’m not even sure what I want, but that’s not the point – it’s that I want it now.

Anything that has to travel all the way down from your cerebellum to your fingertips, there’s a lot of things that can happen on the journey. Sometimes I’ll listen to records, my own stuff, and I think god, the original idea for this was so much better than the mutation that we arrived at.