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" I think when I was younger I was not very good at writing love songs that didn't have a twist. "
Elvis Costello
Twist
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" Really the only thing holding a lot of records together is the personality of the singer, and the will to write all of these different things. "
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" 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. "
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" It's a petty thing, but I wouldn't join the Scouts when I was a kid, 'cause you had to swear allegiance to the queen. I'm just not a royalist. I think it's idiotic, a hereditary principle. "
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" There's no such thing as an original sin. "
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" I've been lucky to listen to lots of different types of music. "
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Been
Different
" There are many critics who have an idealised version of where my strengths lie. "
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" And obviously, when I started out, I had a little bit more curiosity than some, and went seeking out the original artists, or in some cases searching up country music. "
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Curiosity
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" Obviously the people that I admired, like the Beatles, were really into rock'n'roll, but it was already a little past rock'n'roll when I started listening and making my own choices about music. "
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Listening
People
Choices
" I've never felt British. I'm just not interested in national identity. I don't know why. "
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Just
Why
Identity
" It's what I do. I don't deserve any awards for this, it's just music. It's just writing songs. You sit down, you write a song, you record it. You tour and play the songs live, dress them up a bit differently, or dress them down. "
Elvis Costello
Writing
Song
Music
" And over the last ten years, after my work with the Brodsky Quartet, I had the opportunity to write arrangements for chamber group, chamber orchestra, jazz orchestra, symphony orchestra even. "
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Jazz
Group
Work
" I'm a working travelling musician, but just on a bigger scale. "
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Travelling
Scale
" I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies. "
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I Believe
Music
Connected
" My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant. "
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Ultimate
Vocation
Life
" I know that when I make a record like The Delivery Man as a contrast to even Il Sogno, this is going to reach a wider audience, because it communicates in that very direct way. "
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Way
Audience
Know
" I don't think I was ever particularly mean. I can certainly think of some idiotic exchanges I've had. I was accused of destroying pop music, like Wagner destroyed opera - a guy in Germany started ranting that at me. "
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Think
Music
I Can
" Songs are more powerful than books. "
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More
Books
Than
" I've worked hard, every single day since I left school. I think I have a Protestant work ethic. "
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Day
School
Think
" You need a platform upon which to release an orchestral record, otherwise it's just going to be an obscurity. "
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You
Need
Just
" Sometimes I write notes that I have difficulty singing. "
Elvis Costello
Write
Difficulty
Sometimes
" There was not a lot of rock n' roll in the house. Our parents didn't think it was very groovy, and I tend to agree with them. If you grew up with Charlie Parker, Bill Haley wasn't very hip. "
Elvis Costello
Up
Rock
Think
" 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. "
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Romantic
Music
Bad
" Very similar experience happened last year when we released this album, North. It was on Deutsche Grammophon, it was very, very honest. It was the most honest record I've ever written. "
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Last
Most
Honest
" Happiness isn't a fortune in a cookie. It's deeper, wider, funnier, and more transporting than that. "
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Happiness
Cookie
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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
You
Move On
Sound
" But there are things in Il Sogno that the methods of The Delivery Man could never achieve. "
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Things
Delivery
Achieve
" I'd been to Memphis before, but we stayed out of Memphis early on in the late 70s for obvious reasons. People were very sensitive about Elvis Presley, and my stage name obviously would be provocative to some people in that area at that time. "
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Time
People
Late
" Women hear rhythm differently than men. "
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Rhythm
Men
Differently
" Maybe I just never learned my harmony part, because what everybody says sounds odd to them sounds perfectly natural to me. "
Elvis Costello
Harmony
Because
Me
" Obviously I got known for some other songs early on, and some of those were rock'n'roll songs. Some of them were melodic pop songs. And I've done lots of different things, as you know, but every so often I get drawn back. "
Elvis Costello
Done
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You