Elvis Costello Quotes - Page 2

• La tontería prevalece, la modestia fracasa La gracia y la virtud se convierten en estupidez Mientras el calendario desvanece casi todas las barricadas a un pálido compromiso Y nuestros líderes hacen fiestas en los traseros de las bestias Siguen pensando que son los dioses de la antigüedad Si algo que echabas de menos ni siquiera existía Era sólo un ideal ¿Es tanta sorpresa?

  Elvis Costello

  Pensamiento, Estupidez, Líder

  Canción: All This Useless Beauty, Álbum: All This Useless Beauty, 1996

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• We're all just animals. That's all we are, and everything else is just an elaborate justification of our instincts. That's where music comes from. And romantic poetry. And bad novels.

  Elvis Costello

  Animal, Instinct, Romantic Poetry

  "Elvis Costello: What I've Learned" by Tom Junod, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• La felicidad no es una fortuna en una galleta. Es más profunda, más amplia, más divertida y más transportadora que eso.

  Elvis Costello

  Galletas, Fortuna, Más Profundo

  "Elvis Costello: lo que he aprendido", por Tom Junod, www.esquire.com. Noviembre de 2003.

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• Morrissey writes wonderful song titles, but sadly he often forgets to write the song.

  Elvis Costello

  Song, Writing, Titles

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• Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's really a stupid thing to want to do.

  Elvis Costello

  Music, Stupid, Writing

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• [Commercial radio] is owned by one or two corporations now, and they're not in the music business. They're in the advertising business.... So let's not kid ourselves. If you want to hear music, go buy a guitar.

  Elvis Costello

  Niños, Guitarra, Dos

  "Elvis Costello plays with words and praises" by Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. July 17, 2002.

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• The battle with the bottle is nothing so novel.

  Elvis Costello

  Battle, Bottles, Novel

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• There are a lot of things that you can like at a distance without spending a huge amount of time pondering. It's not so complicated.

  Elvis Costello

  Distance, Complicated, Spending

  "Elvis Costello: The ESQ&A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. December 17, 2013.

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• Tu mente está hecha pero tu boca está deshecha.

  Elvis Costello

  Relationship, Mind, Mouths

  Song: Accidents Will Happen, Album: Armed Forces, 1979

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• I find humming is very useful.

  Elvis Costello

  Zumbido

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• They say you better listen to the voice of reason But they don't give you any choice 'cause they think that it's treason. So you had better do as you are told. You better listen to the radio.

  Elvis Costello

  Pensar, Voz, Dar

  Song: Radio, Radio, Album: This Year's Model, 1978

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• Some people can't physically hear things. A kid that listens to Metallica or something can't hear that, because he's filled himself up with this stuff, he physically can't hear a banjo or a harp or something.

  Elvis Costello

  Kids, People, Stuff

  "Summit Talk". Option magazine Interview with Tom Waits, tomwaitsfan.com. July 1989.

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• Anything that has to travel all the way down from your cerebellum to your fingertips, there's a lot of things that can happen on the journey. Sometimes I'll listen to records, my own stuff, and I think god, the original idea for this was so much better than the mutation that we arrived at.

  Elvis Costello

  Thinking, Journey, Ideas

  "Summit Talk". Option magazine Interview with Tom Waits, tomwaitsfan.com. July 1989.

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• I've never felt British. I'm just not interested in national identity. I don't know why.

  Elvis Costello

  Identity, British, Not Interested

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• She said she was working for the ABC news, it was as much of the alphabet as she knew how to use.

  Elvis Costello

  Art, Media, News

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• I've worked hard, every single day since I left school. I think I have a Protestant work ethic.

  Elvis Costello

  School, Thinking, Work Ethic

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• It's the stupid details that my heart is breaking for.

  Elvis Costello

  Stupid, Heart, Greatest Love

  Song: I Want You, Album: Blood And Chocolate, 1986

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• I'm not going to get too sentimental, like those other sticker valentines, 'cause I don't know if you are loving some body. I only know it isn't mine.

  Elvis Costello

  Valentine, Body, Causes

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• Imagination is a powerful deceiver.

  Elvis Costello

  Art, Powerful, Media

  Song: Imagination, Album: My Aim Is True, 1977

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• I've been lucky to listen to lots of different types of music.

  Elvis Costello

  Different, Lucky, Type

  Entrevista con Brian Wise, www.elviscostello.info. 10 de abril de 2004.

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• People become so deeply attached to the sound of one period that they blow a fuse when you move on. I've heard people complain bitterly about recordings they haven't even heard.

  Elvis Costello

  Moving, Blow, People

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• Don't try to touch my heart, it's darker than you think. And don't try to read my mind, because it's full of disappearing ink.

  Elvis Costello

  Heart, Thinking, Advice

  Song: All The Rage, Album: Brutal Youth, 1994

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• You can't live in the past, and I don't. I'm not nostalgic about my own work, at all.

  Elvis Costello

  Past, Nostalgic, My Own

  "Interview about The Delivery Man". Interview with Brian Wise, www.elviscostello.info. April 10, 2004.

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• I knew I was in trouble, but I thought I was in hell.

  Elvis Costello

  Evil, Hell, Trouble

  Song: Tokyo Storm Warning, Album: Blood And Chocolate, 1986

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• Sleeping with forgiveness in your heart for me.

  Elvis Costello

  Heart, Sleep, Expression

  Song: Boy With A Problem, Album: Imperial Bedroom

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