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Elvis Costello Quotes

You need a platform upon which to release an orchestral record, otherwise it's just going to be an obscurity.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: british
Birth: August 25, 1954

Topics

You Need Release Going Just Record

One way to mitigate our risk is to invest in companies with understandable business models.

Business Way Risk Invest Our Models

Everything that has happened in my life is because of good government and because the United States of America was the greatest nation on the face of the earth.

Life Good Government Face My Life

The openness of rural Nebraska certainly influenced me. That openness, in a way, fosters the imagination. But growing up, Lincoln wasn't a small town. It was a college town. It had record stores and was a liberal place.

Imagination College Me Growing Up Up

People who are sick, or who have been sick, or have come close to death have a lot to say - and they want you to hear it.

Anna Deavere Smith

Death People Sick You Say Want

My style is definitely schizophrenic; it does change from day to day a lot. It depends on my mood: sometimes I'll be going through a girly, childlike stage and wear a pretty lace dress with a bow in my hair. Then sometimes I'll be moody and just wear black.

Change Style Day Dress Hair Black

The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.

Sophie Swetchine

Chains Us Most Those Weigh Least

It is necessary to relax your muscles when you can. Relaxing your brain is fatal.

Relax Brain You Muscles Necessary

I grew up with classical music when I was a ballet dancer. Now when I have to prepare an emotional scene, to cry or whatever, I listen to sonatas. Vivaldi and stuff. It's just beautiful to me.

Music Beautiful Me Now Cry Listen

I was quite fat as a kid. And swimming is a sport you can enjoy whatever size you are. If you're fat, running is a pain. I'm not really built for running.

Pain Swimming Fat Enjoy You Size

I'll bet Shakespeare compromised himself a lot; anybody who's in the entertainment industry does to some extent.

Christopher Isherwood

Entertainment Industry Bet Some Does

I'm a fan of the hand-me-down recipes - friends, family, bake sales, community cookbooks - those are the recipes that have withstood the test of time and fed many hungry fans.

Family Community Time Friends Test

Risk is the essence of any reward - to try the thing that no one else is willing to try.

Bozoma Saint John

Reward Risk Try Essence Willing Any

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