Elvis Costello
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Elvis Costello
Declan Patrick MacManus, better known by his stage name Elvis Costello, is an English musician, singer-songwriter, and record producer. He began his career as part of London's pub rock scene in the early 1970s and later became associated with the first wave of the British punk and new wave movement of the mid-to-late 1970s. His critically acclaimed debut album, My Aim Is True, was recorded in 1977. Shortly after recording it he formed the Attractions as his backing band. His...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth25 August 1954
CityLondon, England
It's what's on the record not what labels on it. You know, that's like getting a box of cornflakes and eating the cardboard.
Happiness isn't a fortune in a cookie. It's deeper, wider, funnier, and more transporting than that.
If I am frightened then I can hide it If I am crying, I'll call it laughter If I am haunted, I'll call it my imaginary friend If I am bleeding I'll call it wine But if you leave me then I am broken And if I'm broken then only death remains
It's the damage that we do and never know. It's the words that we don't say that scare me so.
Good manners and bad breath will get you nowhere.
Days of Dutch courage, just three French letters, and a German sense of humour.
Clowntime is over Time to take cover While others just talk and talk Somebody's watching where the others don't walk.
The wages of sin are an expensive infection.
There's no money back guarantee on future happiness.
History repeats the old conceits, the glib replies, the same defeats.
[Commercial] radio is absolutely the enemy of music. They are my sworn and mortal enemy, and I will have nothing to do with them.
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.
You're drinking vintage Elvis Presley wine.
You need a platform upon which to release an orchestral record, otherwise it's just going to be an obscurity.