Nick Lowe Quotes

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• When somebody like Elvis Costello comes along, anybody can make a good record with him.
• Elvis Costello had a brand new bag. He was a musician, but he knew all about the attitude part of it.
• I've always felt quite like an outsider. I don't really belong in the mainstream, and I quite like that.
• Be a military flier or be in a band; those were the two hippest things I could imagine.
• As long as my body holds out, I'll be grooving when I'm 70, and not some sort of horrible spectacle.
• 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…
• I work very hard on getting the songs as direct and examined as I can before I go in the studio.
• I like being a big fish in a small pond. I'm not interested in a huge audience because it brings headaches.
• 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…
• I love the sound of breaking glass Especially when Im lonely I need the noises of destruction When theres nothing new.
• A devastating culmination of the elegant and the funky, a really sensational musician with enormous depth.
• 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…
• 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…
• I'm playing to the sort of people who like the same records.
• If anyone comes along, I'm more than happy to welcome them, but I'm not interested in world domination.
• In the '70s, you had to come up with an album every year whether you were ready or not.
• The number of contemporary artists who appeal to me is infinitesimal.
• When punk rock came along, the one thing you were not supposed to be was musical.
• You've got to really know your song, inside and out.
• 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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