Top 100 Ash Costello Quotes
#1. Through these adversities, Israel has endured with continued strength, conviction, and faith.
Jerry Costello
#3. A lot of pop music has come out of people failing to copy their model and accidentally creating something new. The closer you get to your ideal, the less original you sound.
Elvis Costello
#4. We didn't know anything about comedy duos - Abbot and Costello, Martin and Lewis - we didn't know anything about that. Kim Fields showed us a tape of Martin and Lewis and their old shows and they come through the curtain so we started doing research on them.
Kel Mitchell
#5. You think you're alone until you realize you're in it.
Now fear is here to stay,
love is here for a visit.
Elvis Costello
#6. The only two things that motivate me and that matter to me are revenge
and guilt.
Elvis Costello
#8. Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's really a stupid thing to want to do.
Elvis Costello
#9. When in doubt, play track 4 - it is usually the one you want.
Elvis Costello
#10. These are the sort of things that push you on in music - the curiosity, a passion for new ideas.
Elvis Costello
#12. I could promise that I'll always be true to you, but we may not live to be so old.
Elvis Costello
#13. It's a dangerous game that comedy plays. Sometimes it tells you the truth; sometimes it delays it.
Elvis Costello
#14. The cost of living in sin would make a poor man out of Paul Getty.
Elvis Costello
#15. 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.
Elvis Costello
#16. As I'm lying there at my funeral I would hope to hear somebody say, Look, he's still moving!
Peter Costello
#17. S you check your effects, check your reflection,
I'm so affected in the face of your affection
Elvis Costello
#19. We've confused the cost of lifestyle with the cost of living. We've lost our perspective.
Tim Costello
#20. It's the stupid details that my heart is breaking for.
Elvis Costello
#21. I don't wanna be a lover,
I just wanna be your victim.
Elvis Costello
#22. I've been here all the time; I could be putting out as many albums as Costello, y'know what I mean?
Shane MacGowan
#23. It can be hard at times, but you must trust God. You shouldn't take things into your own hands. He always knows best.
Debbie Lynne Costello
#24. I've never felt British. I'm just not interested in national identity. I don't know why.
Elvis Costello
#25. This whole conversation was turning into a twisted version of Abbot & Costello's Who's on First.
Kelly Moran
#26. People are going to see both of us and think it's an Abbott and Costello kind of thing. It's not an easy switch. It's not an easy transition from TV to film.
Ray Romano
#27. What's so funny about peace, love and understanding
Elvis Costello
#28. The truth can't hurt you, it's just like the dark. It scares you witless but with time you see things clear and stark
Elvis Costello
#29. So don't try to touch my heart, it's darker than you think
And don't try to read my mind because it's full of disappearing ink
Elvis Costello
#30. I mistrust these people in music industry who can be everybody. This is where technology dictates to them. I mistrust that, that in somehow the chips capture the soul of a player, that's patent nonsense.
Elvis Costello
#31. You can't live in the past, and I don't. I'm not nostalgic about my own work at all.
Elvis Costello
#32. I'd love to do 'Werther.' It's a great opera, and the music's so beautiful.
Stephen Costello
#33. When you work with new people, I think that it throws all of the matters into relief, because you have to explain yourself every time. It's like crossing a new border. They want to see your documents.
Elvis Costello
#35. My grandfather and my father disagreed about music, not least of all because my dad wanted to improvise. It wasn't just that he wanted to play different music; it was just that he came off the dots.
Elvis Costello
#37. I've never had any real concern about posterity. I hope some people will be sorry when I'm not here, but I'm not playing for that.
Elvis Costello
#38. You know, we recently played a benefit with my husband, Elvis Costello, and Sir Elton John, who is a mutual friend of ours. Playing with Elvis and Elton and accompanying them with my band was a pretty euphoric experience.
Diana Krall
#39. If it wasn't for some acci-accidents, then some would never learn.
Elvis Costello
#40. Almost 70 percent of U.S. ag exports travel the upper Mississippi River and the Illinois waterway system.
Jerry Costello
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. As Members of Congress and people of conscience, we must work to overcome the indifference and distortions of history, and ensure that future generations know what happened.
Jerry Costello
#44. There are a few things that I regret, but nothing that I need to forget.
Elvis Costello
#45. Every day, hundreds of thousands of men and women protect and serve, often putting their own lives at risk.
Jerry Costello
#46. Attitude is everything. A wrong, negative attitude hinders your forward progress.
Nick Costello
#47. Living a very long time would be a very scary thing.
Elvis Costello
#49. Somebody should clip Sting around the head and tell him to stop using that ridiculous Jamaican accent.
Elvis Costello
#50. The theme of exile is attractive to me, because it's sort of like the family business. Not just music, but travel.
Elvis Costello
#51. Since 2000, we have lost 2.7 million manufacturing jobs, of which 500,000 jobs were in high-tech industries such as telecommunications and electronics.
Jerry Costello
#52. I knew I was in trouble, but I thought I was in hell.
Elvis Costello
#53. My earliest childhood memories are of watching Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein and Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed. I remember not liking Frankenstein then and going, "Who is this bald guy?" But I love it now.
Quentin Tarantino
#54. 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
#55. Dealing with sketch comedy and buddy teams like Abbott and Costello, Bob Hope and Bing Crosby - I just loved buddy comedies.
Drake Bell
#56. 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
#57. The stuff I write I'm very proud of, but I'm smart enough to know I'll never get on the cover of 'Rolling Stone' next to Elvis Costello.
Dan Hill
#58. 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
#59. If you want to save, put money into superannuation, you will never find a better savings vehicle.
Peter Costello
#60. I grew up on Jerry Lewis and Abbot and Costello, the Marx Brothers.
Drake Bell
#63. It's a breath you took too late.
It's a death that's worse than fate.
Elvis Costello
#65. 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
#66. I'm a man with a mission in two or three editions And I'm giving you a longing look Everyday, everyday, everyday I write the book.
Elvis Costello
#69. Clowntime is over Time to take cover While others just talk and talk Somebody's watching where the others don't walk.
Elvis Costello
#70. You need a platform upon which to release an orchestral record, otherwise it's just going to be an obscurity.
Elvis Costello
#71. And I'm up while the dawn is breaking, even though my heart is aching. I should be drinking a toast to absent friends instead of these comedians.
Elvis Costello
#72. Every day more Americans watch their jobs being shipped overseas.
Jerry Costello
#73. This Nation has realized significant environmental improvements over the last three decades.
Jerry Costello
#75. There's a girl in this dress,
there's always a girl in distress.
Elvis Costello
#76. What the use of having ignorance if you can't show it?
Lou Costello
#77. Church wants you on your place. Kneel, stand, kneel, stand. If you go for that sort of thing, I don't know what to do for you. A man makes his own way. No one gives it to you. You have to take it. 'Non serviam'.
Frank Costello
#78. Well, I used to be disgusted.
Now I try to be amused.
Elvis Costello
#79. 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
#80. When somebody like Elvis Costello comes along, anybody can make a good record with him.
Nick Lowe
#81. The way you look I understand how you were not impressed, but I heard you let that little friend of mine take off your party dress.
Elvis Costello
#82. Mr. Speaker, genocide is the most potent of all crimes against humanity because it is an effort to systematically wipe out a people and a culture as well as individual lives.
Jerry Costello
#83. Some people can't physically hear things. A kid that listens to Metallica or something can't hear that, because he's filled himself up with this stuff, he physically can't hear a banjo or a harp or something.
Elvis Costello
#84. For all the courage that we never had, I'm just about glad.
Elvis Costello
#85. Maintaining clean, safe water remains one of our greatest national and global challenges and responsibilities.
Jerry Costello
#87. Most men I know, pissed away their fortunes. I'm the only one I know, that made a fortune pissin'
Frank Costello
#89. I find it to be the ultimate backhanded compliment when you are compared against yourself.
Elvis Costello
#90. 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
#91. While some people are certainly seeing economic benefits, many others are unemployed, underemployed, without health insurance and struggling to make ends meet.
Jerry Costello
#92. The ending of partition was inevitable because Ireland was one nation by history and tradition , by facts of race, geography, and economy
Seamus Costello
#94. It's a petty thing, but I wouldn't join the Scouts when I was a kid, 'cause you had to swear allegiance to the queen. I'm just not a royalist. I think it's idiotic, a hereditary principle.
Elvis Costello
#95. He was thirteen that year, the age when children splinter off and abandon the old loves.
Mark Costello
#96. People think it is all about country music, and I know a lot of country music has come out of there, but like Blonde on Blonde by Bob Dillon was recorded there. A lot of great records; R&B records, jazz records. It's a lot of great players and great studios.
Elvis Costello
#97. You've got a chemistry class; I want a piece of your mind;
You don't know what you started when you mixed it up with mine ...
Elvis Costello
#98. They say you better listen to the voice of reason But they don't give you any choice 'cause they think that it's treason. So you had better do as you are told. You better listen to the radio.
Elvis Costello
#99. I think now we have a very unique opportunity, thanks to the election result, thanks to such a big vote for the Greens, to say you know what, we have to face it. Otherwise this generation will be robbing the next generation of their future, and that's immoral and unethical.
Tim Costello
#100. It is clear that the economy has not gotten better for everyone.
Jerry Costello
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