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

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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.

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About Elvis Costello

Declan Patrick Aloysius MacManus (born 25 August 1954) is an English musician, singer, and songwriter, primarily known by his stage-name Elvis Costello.

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Birth Name: Declan Patrick Aloysius McManus
Native Name: Declan MacManus
Alternative Names: Declan Patrick MacManus
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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

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