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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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"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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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"We owned what we learned back there; the experience and the growth are grafted into our lives."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"Sleep - the most beautiful experience in life - except drink."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"Experience everything but cling to what is right."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"Being the only non-Black was a unique experience. After a few weeks, you're not aware of skin color differences. You see the color; you're not blind, but it doesn't matter. You see the human being first."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"Experience is something you have to go through to tell it details."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"Many people experience Gethsemane moments."

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

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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
"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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Elvis Costello
"But there are things in Il Sogno that the methods of The Delivery Man could never achieve."

Man

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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."

Past

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Elvis Costello
"I used to be disgusted; now I try to be amused."

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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
"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."

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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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