205 Quotes About British-musician


  • Author Elvis Costello
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    I found with this record I had to really be strong-willed, because in the past I've tended to tinker and add a thing or take a thing away, and nearly always been wrong.

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  • Author Elvis Costello
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    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.

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  • Author Elvis Costello
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    Very similar experience happened last year when we released this album, North. It was on Deutsche Grammophon, it was very, very honest. It was the most honest record I've ever written.

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  • Author Elvis Costello
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    I followed The Byrds a lot, and then when they did a country styled record it made me curious to know who these people were that they liked.

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  • Author Eric Clapton
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    Yeah, and I went straight into a fantasy world. Just stepped straight into the abyss. You know, I was gone and kids used to walk past my front room, cause I lived on the green.

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  • Author Eric Clapton
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    I've got the god given talent or the god given opportunity better put, to let that out in a harmless way you know, and I don't know what it does to you, I don't really know.

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  • Author Eric Clapton
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    Yeah, I wanted to know where they got it from, what it was all about, you know, and it seemed to strike something in me that was you know rearing it's head and I still don't know what that is.

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  • Author Eric Clapton
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    It was a mystery to me, how the tuning was, or the style seemed to come out of nowhere, it obviously had roots in America going way back, there was nothing like it for me I'd ever seen before.

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