Elvis Costello
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
I can't say anymore than I love you. Anything else would be a waste of breath.
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's really a stupid thing to want to do.
I've been lucky to listen to lots of different types of music.
There are some things you can't cover up with lipstick and powder.
Why'd you have to say that there's always someone who can do it better than I can And don't you think that I know that walkin' on water won't make me a miracle man
I've had a lot of different experiences in music over the years.And not everything you do can satisfy everybody's idealised version of you.
It's the stupid details that my heart is breaking for.
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.
Patsy Cline belongs shoulder-to-shoulder with Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald.
Though the passion still flutters and flickers, it never got into our knickers.
The way you look I understand how you were not impressed, but I heard you let that little friend of mine take off your party dress.
I mistrust these people in music industry who can be everybody. This is where technology dictates to them. I mistrust that, that in somehow the chips capture the soul of a player, that's patent nonsense.
Somebody should clip Sting around the head and tell him to stop using that ridiculous Jamaican accent.
I'm goin' to take a little trip, down paradise's endless shores. They say that travel broadens the mind, till you can't get your head out of doors.