Serious music usually doesn't pay. - Elvis Costello

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Pain is the feeling. Suffering is the effect the pain inflicts. If one can endure pain, one can live without suffering. If one can withstand pain, one can withstand anything. If one can learn to control pain, one can learn to control oneself.

Elvis Costello

Serious music usually doesn't pay.

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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.

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I wish you luck with a capital F.

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I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies.

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History repeats the old conceits, the glib replies, the same defeats.

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