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"Treating your audience like thieves is absurd. Anyone who chooses to listen to our music becomes a collaborator."
"There are so few directors who are musical who appreciate music."
"I came into music just because I wanted the bread. It's true. I looked around and this seemed like the only way I was going to get the kind of bread I wanted."
"I can see me continuing to make the best music I can, and let the chips fall where they may."
"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."
"I just really longed to do music that reflected me as an adult and music that I thought was for other adults."
"Anything I do has to be directly related to my music. If it isn't, I don't really see a point to it."
Explore more quotes by Elvis Costello
"You need a platform upon which to release an orchestral record, otherwise it's just going to be an obscurity."
"I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies."
"Maybe I just never learned my harmony part, because what everybody says sounds odd to them sounds perfectly natural to me."
"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."
"Really the only thing holding a lot of records together is the personality of the singer, and the will to write all of these different things."
"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."
"These are the sort of things that push you on in music - the curiosity, a passion for new ideas."
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