British - Musician | August 25, 1954 -
Life for me is about movement.
Elvis Costello
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I've always felt writing a song was a bit like going on location. That's true in an almost literal sense. Where you are seeps in somehow.
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I've worked hard, every single day since I left school. I think I have a Protestant work ethic.
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You do have to be a bit careful with your voice. It is an instrument.
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Smokey Robinson writes the heartfelt songs, whereas it was my job to write the songs about weakness and failure in love.
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I think when I was younger I was not very good at writing love songs that didn't have a twist.
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We're all just animals. That's all we are, and everything else is just an elaborate justification of our instincts. That's where music comes from. And romantic poetry. And bad novels.
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Songs are more powerful than books.
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Living a very long time would be a very scary thing.
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It's a petty thing, but I wouldn't join the Scouts when I was a kid, 'cause you had to swear allegiance to the queen. I'm just not a royalist. I think it's idiotic, a hereditary principle.
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I've never felt British. I'm just not interested in national identity. I don't know why.
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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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