I've had an unusual life. A life far removed from most people's experience. — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
I've never had any real concern about posterity. I hope some people will be sorry when I'm not here, but I'm not… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
Some people can't physically hear things. A kid that listens to Metallica or something can't hear that, because he's filled himself up… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
My family calls me Declan. But most people call me E.C. I think it comes from my dad. It's an Irish convention.… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
When you work with new people, I think that it throws all of the matters into relief, because you have to explain… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
The people with the most resources are the federal government. If you can invade a country halfway across the world in a… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
I'd been to Memphis before, but we stayed out of Memphis early on in the late 70s for obvious reasons. People were… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
People think it is all about country music, and I know a lot of country music has come out of there, but… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
I mistrust these people in music industry who can be everybody. This is where technology dictates to them. I mistrust that, that… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
People become so deeply attached to the sound of one period that they blow a fuse when you move on. I've heard… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
I just got into it like a lot of people through the rock 'n' roll bands in the late '60s that turned… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
There's so many people to see. So many people to check up on and add to your collection. — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
“He's such a drag He's not insane It's just that everybody Has to feel his pain.” — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
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… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
People tend to repeat the same quotes at me that I said when I was 23. And of course, you say things… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
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… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
When you're working with the same band you kind of know their style inside out, and even when you've been working for… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
I'd be very suspicious of anybody that seems to have to move to the next level of expression. I distrust that: now… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
History repeats the old conceits, the glib replies, the same defeats. — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
People think it is all about country music, and I know a lot of country music has come out of there, but like Blonde… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
I get very frustrated by this term 'genre exercise.' I mean, what exactly is that? Genre is not really relevant when you are writing… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
Even in a perfect world where everyone was equal. I'd still own the film rights and be working on the sequel. — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
Somebody should clip Sting around the head and tell him to stop using that ridiculous Jamaican accent. — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
There is something wrong with you if you don't get angry about something. — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
“Was it a millionaire who said "imagine no possessions?" A poor little schoolboy who said "we don't need no lessons?” — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
Though the passion still flutters and flickers, it never got into our knickers. — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
My dad's father was a White Star Line trumpet player in the '20s. It shaped the way that I think about music. My grandfather… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
Maybe I just never learned my harmony part, because what everybody says sounds odd to them sounds perfectly natural to me. — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
