8 Quotes by Elvis Costello about writing


  • Author Elvis Costello
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    Sometimes I write notes that I have difficulty singing. And you start talking yourself out of the bold melody and start wanting to arrange it in another key or something. Maybe I just never learned my harmony part, because what everybody says sounds odd to them sounds perfectly natural to me.

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  • Author Elvis Costello
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    Really the only thing holding a lot of records together is the personality of the singer, and the will to write all of these different things.

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    And over the last ten years, after my work with the Brodsky Quartet, I had the opportunity to write arrangements for chamber group, chamber orchestra, jazz orchestra, symphony orchestra even.

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  • Author Elvis Costello
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    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.

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  • Author Elvis Costello
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    I can write orchestrations, but I can't sight-read music and play at the same time. I don't have enough facility.

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