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I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies. ↗

— Elvis Costello

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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

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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

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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

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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

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I always wanted what Mom and Dad had. ↗

— Kim Kardashian

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My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant. ↗

— Elvis Costello

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Obviously the people that I admired, like the Beatles, were really into rock'n'roll, but it was already a little past rock'n'roll when I started listening and making my own choices about music. ↗

— Elvis Costello

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Sometimes I write notes that I have difficulty singing. ↗

— Elvis Costello

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These are the sort of things that push you on in music - the curiosity, a passion for new ideas. ↗

— Elvis Costello

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