Boxes Quote by Elvis Costello

“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 cardboard.”

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Good manners and bad breath will get you nowhere.

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History repeats the old conceits, the glib replies, the same defeats.

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Even in a perfect world where everyone was equal. I'd still own the film rights and be working on the sequel.

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Somebody should clip Sting around the head and tell him to stop using that ridiculous Jamaican accent.

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There is something wrong with you if you don't get angry about something.

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“Was it a millionaire who said "imagine no possessions?" A poor little schoolboy who said "we don't need no lessons?”

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Though the passion still flutters and flickers, it never got into our knickers.

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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…

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Life for me is about movement.

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Maybe I just never learned my harmony part, because what everybody says sounds odd to them sounds perfectly natural to me.

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