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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."

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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."

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Donna Grant

"The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past."

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Donna Grant

"The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either."

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Donna Grant

"The past is a shadow; the present is real."

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Donna Grant

"Drop the past. The past is no more, and the future is not yet."

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Donna Grant

"Don't be unnecessarily burdened by the past. Go on closing chapters that you have read."

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Donna Grant

"Your past does not define you, your present does."

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Donna Grant

"The past is magnetic. It draws us in."

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Donna Grant

"The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image."

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Donna Grant

"The curious defiled past him, after squeezing the Presidential fingers into the room, and settled either on the sofa or chairs or remained standing for protracted observations."

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Donna Grant

"Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster."

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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
"Women hear rhythm differently than men."

Men

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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."

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

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Elvis Costello
"Very similar experience happened last year when we released this album, North. It was on Deutsche Grammophon, it was very, very honest. It was the most honest record I've ever written."

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Elvis Costello
"Well, T Bone's had a remarkable career as a producer since the time that we first worked together. He was dividing his time between recording and producing when we first met, and touring. We toured together and we were great friends."

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

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

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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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