Elvis Costello Quotes

But it's easier to say 'I love you',than 'Yours, sincerely' I suppose.

Happiness isn't a fortune in a cookie. It's deeper, wider, funnier, and more transporting than that.

So you take her to the pictures,trying to become a fixture.Inch by inch trying to reach her,all the ...

I don't wanna be a lover,I just wanna be your victim.

I could say it was the nights when I was lonelyand you were the only one who'd talk.I could tell you...

You think you're alone until you realize you're in it.Now fear is here to stay, love is here for a v...

The radio is in the hands of such a lot of fools tryin' to anesthetize the way that you feel.

There's a girl in this dress,there's always a girl in distress.

Women hear rhythm differently than men.

Death wears a big hat.

She's no angel.He's no saint.

Oh, I know that she's disgusted,cause she's feeling so abused.She gets tired of the lust,but it's so...

He's such a dragHe's not insaneIt's just that everybodyHas to feel his pain.

Smokey Robinson writes the heartfelt songs, whereas it was my job to write the songs about weakness ...

Life is so strangeI don't know whyBut somebody, somebody has to cry.

It was a real party of swells.

The battle with the bottle is nothing so novel.

Can a mere song change a people's minds? I doubt that it is so. But a song can infiltrate your heart...

We're all just animals. That's all we are, and everything else is just an elaborate justification of...

Strict TimeThere's a hand on a wire that leads to my mouth I can hear you knocking but I'm not comin...

It's a breath you took too late.It's a death that's worse than fate.

Bad lovers face to face in the morning Shy apologies and polite regrets Slow dances that left no war...

I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strateg...

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's really a stupid thing to want to do.

No use wishing now for any other sin.