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Elvis Costello Quotes

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.

Elvis Costello

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Music Romantic Poetry Bad Animals

Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.

Jim Horning

Good Experience Bad Judgement

The western view of Christ is usually of a stainless being with fair hair who appears to have come from Oslo.

Jim Crace

Hair View Fair Being Come Christ

If you're female, and you want to express your femininity, you're actually demonized in the 'Free To Be... You And Me' generation.

Jill Soloway

Me Free Generation You Want Your

In a professional service environment, you often work on one engagement or deal after another, with one ending before the next begins.

Andrew Yang

Work Service Ending Environment You

I really like involvement with an audience.

Anderson Cooper

Audience Involvement Like Really

I can actually trace the moment I decided I couldn't be a doctor. It was in biology, they brought in these African crickets and we were supposed to dissect them - but there's no way I was touching those bugs.

Meg Rosoff

Moment Doctor Biology I Can Way

Christian audiences, I think, have grown very tired of movies that try to pander to them.

John Lee Hancock

Tired Think Christian Movies Try

I like The White Stripes and I like the kinda twang American thing right now.

Ann Wilson

American White Now Right Stripes

Back home, playing music is never anything you imagine you can do for a living. It's what you do after work.

Sturgill Simpson

Work Home Music You Back Living

When I was growing up, I loved the films where you'd start them and the score might sound really odd at first and really different, and then by the time you finish, you can't imagine it being any other way.

Steven Price

Time Growing Up Start Loved You Way

When I'm not working, I spend a lot of time on my hair. When it's time for my hair to get some rest, I either wear it in a ponytail, bun or my favorite 'milkmaid' braid.

Tracee Ellis Ross

Time Hair Rest Ponytail Wear Get

I think my thing is I grew up in the ghetto, and I was able to get a second chance. That's what I'm trying to tell kids.

Master P

Chance Think Second Chance Trying Up