Costello Quotes & Sayings

I lay my worries at Your feet. Thank You, Lord, for the mighty ways You deliver me. You are my rock and shield. — Judith Costello

Live your life,Imogen.Suck every bit of happiness out of it.You deserve it.We all do. — Jane Costello

As for music, my tastes are eclectic. Elvis Costello is my all-time favorite. I listen to a lot of jazz, primarily the great female vocalists, and I am very fond of the late cabaret singer Nancy Lamott. — Laura Lippman

For me everything had changed and yet looking around, very little had. — Michael Costello

It gets so boring at home. After all, how many reruns of Abbott and Costello movies can a guy watch on television? — Bud Abbott

Oh, I used to be disgusted, but now I try to be amused. — Elvis Costello

I woke up and one of us was crying. — Elvis Costello

I can't say anymore than I love you. Anything else would be a waste of breath. — Elvis Costello

Was it a millionaire who said, "Imagine no possessions"? — Elvis Costello

When in doubt, play track 4 - it is usually the one you want. — Elvis Costello

There's a girl here and She's almost you... — Elvis Costello

A husband is what's left of a sweetheart after the nerve has been killed. — Lou Costello

That was the best ice-cream soda I ever tasted. (Last words.) — Lou 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

You'll never be alone in the bone orchard. — Elvis Costello

She's filing her nails while they are dragging the lake. — Elvis Costello

It's the stupid details that my heart is breaking for. — Elvis Costello

I've been here all the time; I could be putting out as many albums as Costello, y'know what I mean? — Shane MacGowan

My family calls me Declan. But most people call me E.C. I think it comes from my dad. It's an Irish convention. You usually call the first child by the initials. — Elvis Costello

There are a few things that I regret, but nothing that I need to forget. — Elvis Costello

Sleeping with forgiveness in your heart for me. — Elvis Costello

Before becoming an Australian you will be asked to subscribe to certain values. If you have strong objections to those values, don't come to Australia. — Peter Costello

Christine O'Donnell: I think especially in such an unstable economic environment, what people criticized him for in 2008 his consistency , the fact that he was so strong , and I think people will find that appealing going into the 2012. Carol Costello: Well, some people say Mitt Romney isn't the most consistent candidate, because he's changed his minds about big, important issues over the years. Christine O'Donnell: You know, that's one of the things that I like about him because he's been consistent since he changed his mind. — Christine O'Donnell

With faith and courage, generations of Armenians have overcome great suffering and proudly preserved their culture, traditions, and religion and have told the story of the genocide to an often indifferent world. — Jerry Costello

He's such a drag
He's not insane
It's just that everybody
Has to feel his pain. — 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

Clowntime is over Time to take cover While others just talk and talk Somebody's watching where the others don't walk. — Elvis Costello

You must hold on to the sort of finger-painting aspect of music. That's something I learned, particularly from listening to Neil Young. Tom Waits is another one, because Tom's music is incredibly sophisticated and beautifully arranged, but he's using a toolbox that's unlike anybody else's. — Elvis Costello

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? — Elvis Costello

The long arm of the law slides up the outskirts of town. — Elvis Costello

I'm just the mere shadow of my former selfishness. I crave the silhouette of your kiss. — Elvis Costello

I'm a working travelling musician, but just on a bigger scale. — Elvis Costello

Sometimes I write notes that I have difficulty singing. — Elvis Costello

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. — Elvis Costello

I'm drawing from two generations back how to think about music, how to think about why you travel to make music, what the possible pitfalls of that are for the way your life is structured. The good and bad of all of it get into the mix of what's created, what you're creating. — Elvis Costello

A lot of people had to die for me to be me. — Frank Costello

I auditioned for 'West Side Story' and got the part of Tony, but wasn't allowed to do it. They needed me to play trumpet. But I was glad, in the end, because I learned a lot about playing that score. — Stephen Costello

Oh, I know that she's disgusted,
cause she's feeling so abused.
She gets tired of the lust,
but it's so hard to refuse. — Elvis Costello

What the use of having ignorance if you can't show it? — Lou Costello

Sometimes I wonder if we're livin' in the same land.
Why do you wanna be my friend
when I feel like a juggler
running out of hands? — Elvis Costello

Cause somewhere in the Quizling Clinic, there's a shorthand typist taking seconds over minutes. — Elvis Costello

There's no such thing as an original sin. — Elvis Costello

It's the damage that we do and never know. It's the words that we don't say that scare me so. — Elvis Costello

Women hear rhythm differently than men. — Elvis Costello

This Nation has realized significant environmental improvements over the last three decades. — Jerry Costello

Amtrak is extremely important to the economy of Southern Illinois and I will continue to work with state and local leaders and my colleagues in Congress to secure the necessary funding to maintain full service. — Jerry Costello

Critics like Elvis Costello because critics are like Elvis Costello. — David Lee Roth

She laughs and looks out the window and I think for a minute that she's going to start to cry. I'm standing by the door and I look over at the Elvis Costello poster, at his eyes, watching her, watching us, and I try to get her away from it, so I tell her to come over here, sit down, and she thinks I want to hug her or something and she comes over to me and puts her arms around my back and says something like 'I think we've all lost some sort of feeling. — Bret Easton Ellis

I have always felt that the great lottery of life is unfair. The fact is that I was thrown up on the stage of life called Australia. You don't choose where you are thrown on to this stage. So universal health, universal education, of course plenty of food and clean water. — Tim Costello

When you decide to be something, you can be it. That's what they don't tell you in the church. When I was your age, they would say we can become cops or criminals. Today, what I'm saying to you is this: when you're facing a loaded gun, what's the difference? — Frank 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

There was not a lot of rock n' roll in the house. Our parents didn't think it was very groovy, and I tend to agree with them. If you grew up with Charlie Parker, Bill Haley wasn't very hip. — Elvis Costello

It's not crazy to want to have certain songs be developed harmonically and still want to make noise with the guitar. And you can have both. — Elvis Costello

Death wears a big hat. — Elvis Costello

Days of Dutch courage, just three French letters, and a German sense of humour. — Elvis Costello

It's what's on the record not what labels on it. You know, that's like getting a box of cornflakes and eating the cardboard. — Elvis Costello

The United States transportation system is the envy of the world. — Jerry Costello

Life for me is about movement. — Elvis Costello

Imagination is a powerful deceiver. — Elvis Costello

You need a platform upon which to release an orchestral record, otherwise it's just going to be an obscurity. — Elvis Costello

No one gives it to you. You have to take it. — Frank Costello

No, Paul, I couldn't care less if you tell me made-up stories. Our lies reveal as much about us as our truths.' (Said to Paul by Elizabeth Costello, the interloping novelist-angel-inner voice). — J.M. Coetzee

People speak with enormous pomposity and arrogance about music. — Elvis Costello

Though the passion still flutters and flickers, it never got into our knickers. — Elvis Costello

Theres so many fish in the sea That only rise up in the sweat and smoke like mercury — Elvis Costello

I'd love to do 'Werther.' It's a great opera, and the music's so beautiful. — Stephen Costello

The only one that can do what I do is me. Lot of people had to die for me to be me. You wanna be me? — Frank Costello

I've always felt writing a song was a bit like going on location. That's true in an almost literal sense. Where you are seeps in somehow. — Elvis Costello

Although in Abbott and Costello, and straight man was first. That's a very interesting concept. — Harvey Korman

This was a tragic event in human history, but by paying tribute to the Armenian community we ensure the lessons of the Armenian genocide are properly understood and acknowledged. — Jerry Costello

Life is so strange
I don't know why
But somebody, somebody has to cry. — Elvis Costello

In the tiny torn up pieces of his mind he's irresistible too. — Elvis Costello

I wanna bite the hand that feeds me. I wanna bite that hand so badly. I want to make them wish they'd never seen me. — Elvis Costello

Funny, now I can see, how looks can be deceiving. — Elvis Costello

Intensely moving but never sentimental, Academy Street is a profound meditation on what Faulkner called 'the human heart in conflict with itself'. In Tess Lohan, Mary Costello has created one of the most fully realized characters in contemporary fiction. What a marvel of a book. — Ron Rash

Don't get smart or sarcastic
He snaps back just like elastic
Spare us the theatrics and the verbal gymnastics
We break wise guys just like matchsticks — Elvis Costello

Almost 70 percent of U.S. ag exports travel the upper Mississippi River and the Illinois waterway system. — Jerry Costello

No use wishing now for any other sin. — Elvis Costello

Certain songs have been written years apart, but they have a natural continuity to my mind. — Elvis Costello

But if I've done something wrong there's no "ifs" and "buts"
Cause I love you just as much as I hate your guts — Elvis Costello

Now a 'funnyman' can get a laugh before opening his mouth - looking funny. Lou Costello was one of your great funnymen. Harry Langdon, Larry Semon; they were all funnymen - they looked funny. W.C. Fields was never a comedian. Slim Summerville was a comedian, yet looked funny. Now if you have both attributes, you are in good shape. — Milton Berle

Pragmatists fear losing the body. Idealists fear losing the soul. It's the soul of Ireland that's at risk, Piggy. For goddsakes, the country is becoming fuckin' Paddyland. Planet Ireland. Every castle and historic site has a ticket booth and fence thrown around it. Where's the giant mouse with the green ears? He can't be long away, is he, Piggy?" Des — D.P. Costello

As a singer, you can't hear what's coming out of your throat; you're only hearing it from the inside, so you need a trusted person who knows how your voice works. It's like a car. You take it to the same mechanic because they know it inside out, and every time you get it back, it works fantastic. — Stephen Costello

My first lyric departed directly from Mingus's title "This Subdues My Passion." If you didn't think the song was already half written after that title, then you had no business dallying with the tune in the first place. I wrote about the way that music tempers the violence within a man. This subdues my passion And it may control my rage It may stem the poison that spills out onto the page — Elvis Costello

The ending of partition was inevitable because Ireland was one nation by history and tradition , by facts of race, geography, and economy — Seamus Costello

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. — Elvis Costello

As I'm lying there at my funeral I would hope to hear somebody say, Look, he's still moving! — Peter Costello

When they finally put you in the ground, I'll stand on your grave and tramp the dirt down. — Elvis Costello

If it wasn't for some acci-accidents, then some would never learn. — Elvis Costello

Elvis Costello had a brand new bag. He was a musician, but he knew all about the attitude part of it. — Nick Lowe

I'm not even sure what I want, but that's not the point - it's that I want it now. — 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

I've come to learn that determination only gets you so far in life when you're completely devoid of ability. — Jane Costello

Living or dead, Roberto would always be the only man for me. — Jane Costello

Your mind is made up but your mouth is undone. — Elvis Costello

She's no angel.
He's no saint. — Elvis Costello

Nonsense prevails, modesty fails Grace and virtue turn into stupidity While the calendar fades almost all barricades to a pale compromise And our leaders have feasts on the backsides of beasts They still think they're the gods of antiquity If something you missed didn't even exist It was just an ideal is it such a surprise? — Elvis Costello

I could promise that I'll always be true to you, but we may not live to be so old. — Elvis Costello

The wages of sin are an expensive infection. — Elvis Costello

There are some nights when you've spent so long analysing things that all that's left to do is get drunk. — Jane Costello