Elvis Costello
Elvis Costello
Declan Patrick MacManus, better known by his stage name Elvis Costello, is an English musician, singer-songwriter, and record producer. He began his career as part of London's pub rock scene in the early 1970s and later became associated with the first wave of the British punk and new wave movement of the mid-to-late 1970s. His critically acclaimed debut album, My Aim Is True, was recorded in 1977. Shortly after recording it he formed the Attractions as his backing band. His...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth25 August 1954
CityLondon, England
Women hear rhythm differently than men.
The radio is in the hands of such a lot of fools tryin' to anesthetize the way that you feel.
I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies.
You can be addicted to misery the same way as you can be addicted to drugs.
There are five things to write songs about: I'm leaving you. You're leaving me. I want you. You don't want me. I believe in something. Five subjects, and 12 notes. For all that, we musicians do pretty well.
I started with rock n' roll and...then you start to take it apart like a child with a toy and you see there's blues and there's country...Then you go back from country into American music...and you end up in Scotland and Ireland eventually.
I can write orchestrations, but I can't sight-read music and play at the same time. I don't have enough facility.
And I don't feel any form of music is beyond me in the sense of that I don't understand it or I don't have some love for some part of it.
As I walk through This wicked world Searchin' for light in the darkness of insanity, I ask myself Is all hope lost? Is there only pain and hatred, and misery? And each time I feel like this inside, There's one thing I wanna know: What's so funny 'bout Peace, Love, & Understanding?
I used to be disgusted; now I try to be amused.
Music is more like water than a rhinoceros. It doesn't charge madly down one path. It runs away in every direction.
Don't start me talking, I could talk all night. My mind goes sleepwalking while I'm putting the world right.