Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink
A source page for quotes linked to Elvis Costello.
“If it wasn't for some acci-accidents, then some would never learn.”
“You can't live in the past, and I don't. I'm not nostalgic about my own work, at all.”
“There is something wrong with you if you don't get angry about something.”
“Days of Dutch courage, just three French letters, and a German sense of humour.”
“History repeats the old conceits, the glib replies, the same defeats.”
“People speak with enormous pomposity and arrogance about music.”
“Certain songs have been written years apart, but they have a natural continuity to my mind.”
“Theres so many fish in the sea That only rise up in the sweat and smoke like mercury”
“Don't tell me you don't know what love is When you're old enough to know better.”
“Now I just don't know who to tell to go to hell Who put the old devil in the distorted angel?”
“Don't wear your heart on your sleeve when your remarks are off the cuff.”
“I love you more than anything in this world. I don't expect that will last.”
“Patsy Cline belongs shoulder-to-shoulder with Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald.”