top of page
Quote_1.png
Elvis Costello

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

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

Exlpore more Music quotes

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"A song is anything that can walk by itself."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"All truthful music is familiar to the ear, for its notes were written into our souls long ago."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Strains of music spring up, crystallizing in the night air like rain turning suddenly to snow, drifting to earth."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"A tapping foot isn't the best a listener can get from a song: A good song makes a listener dance. A great song makes him think."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Music has always gotten me through life, particularly honest, real music."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"I aim my arrangements at what will fit and colorfully frame the song in the best way possible."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"I'm not doing contemporary songs unless something comes along that really knocks my socks off."

Explore more quotes by Elvis Costello

Quote_1.png
Elvis Costello
"You have to face the fact that I have no reputation as a composer; I have my reputation as a songwriter and a performer-and that opportunity came this summer, when I was invited to perform at the Lincoln Centre festival in New York... three nights."
Quote_1.png
Elvis Costello
"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."
Quote_1.png
Elvis Costello
"Well, 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."
Quote_1.png
Elvis Costello
"I've been lucky to listen to lots of different types of music."
Quote_1.png
Elvis Costello
"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."
Quote_1.png
Elvis Costello
"Women hear rhythm differently than men."
Quote_1.png
Elvis Costello
"My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant."
Quote_1.png
Elvis Costello
"There's no such thing as an original sin."
Quote_1.png
Elvis Costello
"Obviously I got known for some other songs early on, and some of those were rock'n'roll songs. Some of them were melodic pop songs. And I've done lots of different things, as you know, but every so often I get drawn back."
Quote_1.png
Elvis Costello
"Maybe I just never learned my harmony part, because what everybody says sounds odd to them sounds perfectly natural to me."
bottom of page