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

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I used to be disgusted; now I try to be amused. by Elvis Costello

I used to be disgusted; now I try to be amused.

bullying inspirational life

There are five things to write songs about: I'm leaving you. You're leaving me. I want you. You don't want me. I believe in something. Five subjects, and 12 notes. For all that, we musicians do pretty well.

music song believe

I wish you luck with a capital F. by Elvis Costello

I wish you luck with a capital F.

wish-you luck wish

I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies.

passion curiosity believe

History repeats the old conceits, the glib replies, the same defe... by Elvis Costello

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

premonition future defeat

I'm not even sure what I want, but that's not the point - it's th... by Elvis Costello

I'm not even sure what I want, but that's not the point - it's that I want it now.

want

Oh I used to be disgusted and now I try to be amused. But since their wings have got rusted, you know, the angels wanna wear my red shoes.

shoes angel wings

As I walk through This wicked world Searchin' for light in the darkness of insanity, I ask myself Is all hope lost? Is there only pain and hatred, and misery? And each time I feel like this inside, There's one thing I wanna know: What's so funny 'bout Peace, Love, & Understanding?

pain light hatred

I can't say anymore than I love you. Anything else would be a was... by Elvis Costello

I can't say anymore than I love you. Anything else would be a waste of breath.

marriage would-be love

The people with the most resources are the federal government. If you can invade a country halfway across the world in a matter of days, you can surely come to the aid of your own citizens in a shorter order of time.

government order country

Songs are more powerful than books. by Elvis Costello

Songs are more powerful than books.

music powerful song

I started with rock n' roll and...then you start to take it apart like a child with a toy and you see there's blues and there's country...Then you go back from country into American music...and you end up in Scotland and Ireland eventually.

rocks country children

Don't start me talking, I could talk all night. My mind goes sleepwalking while I'm putting the world right.

talking night peace

The radio is in the hands of such a lot of fools tryin' to anesth... by Elvis Costello

The radio is in the hands of such a lot of fools tryin' to anesthetize the way that you feel.

radio hands way

And I don't feel any form of music is beyond me in the sense of that I don't understand it or I don't have some love for some part of it.

music-is form feels

Music is more like water than a rhinoceros. It doesn't charge madly down one path. It runs away in every direction.

path running water

Women hear rhythm differently than men. by Elvis Costello

Women hear rhythm differently than men.

rhythm gender men

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

perfectly-natural odd sound

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

jamaicans ridiculous should

The battle with the bottle is nothing so novel. by Elvis Costello

The battle with the bottle is nothing so novel.

novel bottles battle