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
The songs will tell a story that I have imagined existing between the lines of Andersen's biography and some of his most famous tales, ... They speak of a misfit's love for an unattainable woman and a struggle between a huckster and someone who composes music in secret.
The words that are being spoken are serious, whether you take them at face value or listen to them at all, ... I'm not a preacher, I'm a singer. I can sing about serious things, but I don't think I have to put on a pious face to do it.
This record may explain what I've been doing during the last 12 years when I haven't had an electric guitar in my hands.
And I'm up while the dawn is breaking, even though my heart is aching. I should be drinking a toast to absent friends instead of these comedians.
There are some things you can't cover up with lipstick and powder.
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.
Patsy Cline belongs shoulder-to-shoulder with Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald.
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.
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.
Good manners and bad breath will get you nowhere.
Clowntime is over Time to take cover While others just talk and talk Somebody's watching where the others don't walk.
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.