Nick Lowe Quotes
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When somebody like Elvis Costello comes along, anybody can make a good record with him.
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Elvis Costello had a brand new bag. He was a musician, but he knew all about the attitude part of it.
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I've always felt quite like an outsider. I don't really belong in the mainstream, and I quite like that.
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Be a military flier or be in a band; those were the two hippest things I could imagine.
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As long as my body holds out, I'll be grooving when I'm 70, and not some sort of horrible spectacle.
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Going to Nashville to meet the in-laws was the first time when I'd been in America and not been seen as some sort of eccentric…
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I work very hard on getting the songs as direct and examined as I can before I go in the studio.
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I like being a big fish in a small pond. I'm not interested in a huge audience because it brings headaches.
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I suppose I was waiting until I was old enough to have some sort of experience to sing about. When you're young, it's hard to…
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I love the sound of breaking glass Especially when Im lonely I need the noises of destruction When theres nothing new.
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A devastating culmination of the elegant and the funky, a really sensational musician with enormous depth.
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If a hit came along, I wouldn't be unhappy about that. But I'm a bit too old for that now-doing videos and all those types…
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The world is full of musicians who can play great, and you wouldn't cross the road to see them. It's people who have this indefinable…
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I'm playing to the sort of people who like the same records.
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If anyone comes along, I'm more than happy to welcome them, but I'm not interested in world domination.
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In the '70s, you had to come up with an album every year whether you were ready or not.
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The number of contemporary artists who appeal to me is infinitesimal.
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When punk rock came along, the one thing you were not supposed to be was musical.
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You've got to really know your song, inside and out.
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These days, rock 'n' roll is much more about rock than about roll. I don't do rock. But I'm interested in that roll part, because…
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