"You have to face the fact that I have no reputation as a composer; I have my reputation as a songwriter and a performer-and that opportunity came this summer, when I was invited to perform at the Lincoln Centre festival in New York... three nights."

-- Elvis Costello

#Summer Quotes #New York Quotes #Opportunity Quotes

“You just never know when somebodys gonna die. It could happen at any moment so youve got to really treat everybody that way. Just really let everybody know how you feel about them.”
“A politician wouldn't dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed to call a politician”
“Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.”
“Happiness must be grown in one's own garden.”
“Since I was a kid, I've had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties, Chicago blues of the Fifties, West Coast music of the mid-Sixties - but I'd never really touched on dark Americana.”
“Thereâ€™s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.”
“Are you upset little friend? Have you been lying awake worrying? Well, don't worry...I'm here. The flood waters will recede, the famine will end, the sun will shine tomorrow, and I will always be here to take care of you.”
“We forget that the soul has its own ancestors.”

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