My dad's father was a White Star Line trumpet player in the '20s. It shaped the way that I think about music.… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
The way you look I understand how you were not impressed, but I heard you let that little friend of mine take… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
I'm drawing from two generations back how to think about music, how to think about why you travel to make music, what… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
You can be addicted to misery the same way as you can be addicted to drugs. — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
The radio is in the hands of such a lot of fools tryin' to anesthetize the way that you feel. — 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
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
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