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Elvis Costello

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You need a platform upon which to release an orchestral record, otherwise it's just going to be an obscurity.


— Elvis Costello


#just #need #obscurity #orchestral #otherwise

There are many critics who have an idealised version of where my strengths lie.


— Elvis Costello


#idealised #lie #many #strengths #version

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


#beyond #feel #form #i #love

And obviously, when I started out, I had a little bit more curiosity than some, and went seeking out the original artists, or in some cases searching up country music.


— Elvis Costello


#bit #cases #country #country music #curiosity

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


#arrangements #chamber #even #group #had

But there are things in Il Sogno that the methods of The Delivery Man could never achieve.


— Elvis Costello


#could #delivery #man #methods #never

I find humming is very useful.


— Elvis Costello


#humming #i #useful #very

I found with this record I had to really be strong-willed, because in the past I've tended to tinker and add a thing or take a thing away, and nearly always been wrong.


— Elvis Costello


#always #away #be strong #because #been

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


#because #communicates #contrast #delivery #direct

I've been lucky to listen to lots of different types of music.


— Elvis Costello


#different #different types #i #listen #lots






About Elvis Costello

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Did you know about Elvis Costello?

The River in Reverse was released in the UK on the Verve label the following year in May. Also that year Costello made an appearance in the television series Frasier as a folk singer in the Cafe Nervosa sending Frasier and Niles on a search for a new coffee bar. In the intervening period Costello had served as artistic chair for the 1995 Meltdown Festival which gave him the opportunity to explore his increasingly eclectic musical interests.

They toured and recorded together for the better part of a decade though differences between Costello and members of The Attractions caused them to split by 1986. 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/New Wave movement of the mid-to-late 1970s.

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