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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."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"I can't read a note of music. I just do it all from ear."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"I always listen to a lot of different music when I am working on a project."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"What I try to impart to a musician is to really try to practice the instrument in a really sincere way. Learn as much about music as you possibly can. Learn composition. Study to try to create compositions of your own and put your own personal touch on your music."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"I feel that after all those horrible reviews and jokes, I wasn't crazy all these years to stand up for the music I believe in. This album has proven that somewhere in the human race, the human heart is still racing and breaking and I am so grateful."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"I'm thinking in terms of a point of departure, a field of action for performers to express an expressive need of mine which hopefully the context of music would convey."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"I've performed solo for 20 years now, but I don't do much of it, because if you only play alone, you go crazy and out of tune and play foolish music."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"Music is the highest form of philosophy of the conscious mind."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"Well, we play Country music; we're just not sure what country it is."

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Elvis Costello
"Women hear rhythm differently than men."

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Elvis Costello
"Mention Hubert Sumlin, as well, because Hubert's a great man, and again, you know, I don't play the guitar very good, but when I'm playing this kind of music, I always have him in my mind. I wish I could play like Hubert."

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

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Elvis Costello
"My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant."

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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."

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

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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."

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Elvis Costello
"Maybe I just never learned my harmony part, because what everybody says sounds odd to them sounds perfectly natural to me."

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Elvis Costello
"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."

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Elvis Costello
"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."

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