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Happiness isn't a fortune in a cookie. It's deeper, wider, funnier, and more transporting than that.

~Elvis Costello

Topics: Cookie Deeper Fortune Funnier Happiness More Than Wider

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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

Topics: About Attached Become Blow Complain Deeply Even Fuse Heard Move Move On People Period Recordings Sound You

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Life for me is about movement.

~Elvis Costello

Topics: About Life Me Movement

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My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant.

~Elvis Costello

Topics: Life Ultimate Vocation

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

~Elvis Costello

Topics: Amused Disgusted Now Try Used

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These are the sort of things that push you on in music - the curiosity, a passion for new ideas.

~Elvis Costello

Topics: Curiosity Ideas Music New New Ideas Passion Push Sort Things You

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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.

~Elvis Costello

Topics: Any Beyond Feel Form Love Me Music Part Sense Some Understand

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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.

~Elvis Costello

Topics: After Arrangements Chamber Even Group Had Jazz Last Opportunity Orchestra Over Quartet Symphony Ten Ten Years Work Write Years

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I find humming is very useful.

~Elvis Costello

Topics: Find Humming Useful Very

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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.

~Elvis Costello

Topics: Audience Because Contrast Delivery Direct Even Going Know Like Make Man Reach Record Very Way Wider

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Musician

Born: August 25th, 1954

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