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  • We're all just animals. That's all we are, and everything else is just an elaborate justification of our instincts. That's where music comes from. And romantic poetry. And bad novels.
    - Elvis Costello
  • 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.
    - 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.
    - Elvis Costello
  • I've been lucky to listen to lots of different types of music.
    - 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.
    - 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.
    - Elvis Costello
  • These are the sort of things that push you on in music - the curiosity, a passion for new ideas.
    - 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.
    - Elvis Costello
  • I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies.
    - Elvis Costello
  • I don't think I was ever particularly mean. I can certainly think of some idiotic exchanges I've had. I was accused of destroying pop music, like Wagner destroyed opera - a guy in Germany started ranting that at me.
    - Elvis Costello
  • The Internet is overrated. It's much smaller an innovation than people think it is. I don't think it's changed the way anybody makes music.
    - Elvis Costello
  • It's what I do. I don't deserve any awards for this, it's just music. It's just writing songs. You sit down, you write a song, you record it. You tour and play the songs live, dress them up a bit differently, or dress them down.
    - Elvis Costello