Tendentious In Elbow Quotes

#1. Only time can write a song that's really really real
The most a man can do is say the way its playing feels
And know he only knows as much as time to him reveals

Richard Hell

#2. I drive a lot. Just for pleasure. Sometimes I'll get in the Cadillac and drive around the city or the country, kind of trying to get lost basically. Y'know, just see where roads lead.

Frank Black

#3. You have to come from somewhere, but you don't have to go back there anymore.

Robyn Hitchcock

#4. Red of the Dawn
Is it turning a fainter red? so be it, but when shall we lay
The ghost of the Brute that is walking and hammering us yet and be free?

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#5. I'm a great songwriter, but I'm not the most talented musician.

Noel Gallagher

#6. I think the ethical standards established in this White House have been the highest in the history of the White House.

Al Gore

#7. One conversation! One simple, honest, true conversation, and all your questions would be answered, all your problems solved! Really, man, is it that difficult? Then you'd be free to fall into each other's arms and live your Happily Ever After. Why make it so complicated?
Eanrin

Anne Elisabeth Stengl

#8. I had always sung, as far back as I can remember, for the pure love of it. My voice was contralto, and I sang in a church in Naples from fourteen till I was eighteen.

Enrico Caruso

#9. Did my good deed for the day. Still not close to heaven, but it's something.

April Mae Monterrosa

#10. Nona was as wacky as they came.

Holly Hood

#11. I can't help believing that these things that come from the subconscious mind have a sort of truth to them. It may not be a scientific truth, but it's psychological truth.

Brian Aldiss

#12. All the stories we've been telling about the presence of an evil power in the world, all the dark characters that have sent chills down our spines and given us restless nights - they are spoken to us as warnings.
There is evil cast around us ... there is an evil force in this world.

John Eldredge

#13. Songs seem to live in the soul even when everything else leaves

Ella Frank

#14. His goodness stands approved,Unchanged from day to day;I'll drop my burden at His feet,And bear a song away.

Philip Doddridge