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Elvis Costello

Read through the most famous quotes from Elvis Costello




My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant.


— Elvis Costello


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Obviously the people that I admired, like the Beatles, were really into rock'n'roll, but it was already a little past rock'n'roll when I started listening and making my own choices about music.


— 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.


— Elvis Costello


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Sometimes I write notes that I have difficulty singing.


— Elvis Costello


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I used to be disgusted; now I try to be amused.


— Elvis Costello


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There's no such thing as an original sin.


— Elvis Costello


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These are the sort of things that push you on in music - the curiosity, a passion for new ideas.


— 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.


— 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.


— Elvis Costello


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Women hear rhythm differently than men.


— Elvis Costello


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About Elvis Costello

Elvis Costello Quotes




Did you know about Elvis Costello?

The River in Reverse was released in the UK on the Verve label the following year in May. Also that year Costello made an appearance in the television series Frasier as a folk singer in the Cafe Nervosa sending Frasier and Niles on a search for a new coffee bar. In the intervening period Costello had served as artistic chair for the 1995 Meltdown Festival which gave him the opportunity to explore his increasingly eclectic musical interests.

They toured and recorded together for the better part of a decade though differences between Costello and members of The Attractions caused them to split by 1986. He began his career as part of London's pub rock scene in the early 1970s and later became associated with the first wave of the British Punk/New Wave movement of the mid-to-late 1970s.

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