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
Really the only thing holding a lot of records together is the personality of the singer, and the will to write all… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
It's what I do. I don't deserve any awards for this, it's just music. It's just writing songs. You sit down, you… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
You need a platform upon which to release an orchestral record, otherwise it's just going to be an obscurity. — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
It's what's on the record not what labels on it. You know, that's like getting a box of cornflakes and eating the… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
I know that when I make a record like The Delivery Man as a contrast to even Il Sogno, this is going… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
Anything that has to travel all the way down from your cerebellum to your fingertips, there's a lot of things that can… — 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
