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Abbott and Costello were huge for me as a very young person. -- Tim Heidecker
When somebody like Elvis Costello comes along, anybody can make a good record with him. -- Nick Lowe
Although in Abbott and Costello, and straight man was first. That's a very interesting concept. -- Harvey Korman
Elvis Costello's song writing is so peerless and individualistic. It's storytelling and it's deeply intelligent and clever. -- Chip Esten
I've been here all the time; I could be putting out as many albums as Costello, y'know what I mean? -- Shane MacGowan
Elvis Costello had a brand new bag. He was a musician, but he knew all about the attitude part of it. -- Nick Lowe
It gets so boring at home. After all, how many reruns of Abbott and Costello movies can a guy watch on television? -- Bud Abbott
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
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
I never look for music by genre. I look for an artist who puts a dependable trademark on things. Like Elvis Costello - he's a great songwriter who presents his songs in a number of contexts. I feel the same about my own music. -- Todd Rundgren
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
Critics like Elvis Costello because critics are like Elvis Costello. -- David Lee Roth
Music journalists love Elvis Costello and hate me because they look like Elvis Costello -- David Lee Roth
It gets boring at home. How many reruns of Abbott and Costello movies can a guy watch on TV? -- Bud Abbott
I would love to hang out with Elvis Costello, to see what he's up to because he seems so fascinating to me. -- Patrick Stump
We've always had a lot of different influences and we've always liked catchy music from the Beatles to Cheap Trick to Elvis Costello. -- Chuck Comeau
Nothing happened. Nothing continued to happen. More Nothing. The Return of Nothing. Son of Nothing. Nothing Rides Again. Nothing and Abbot and Costello meet the Wolfman... -- Neil Gaiman
Theres a bunch of Elvis Costello records that made all the difference between feeling like a total freak and feeling like ... only a freak. A freak among other freaks -- Elliott Smith
No, Paul, I couldn't care less if you tell me made-up stories. Our lies reveal as much about us as our truths.' (Said to Paul by Elizabeth Costello, the interloping novelist-angel-inner voice). -- J. M. Coetzee
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
As for music, my tastes are eclectic. Elvis Costello is my all-time favorite. I listen to a lot of jazz, primarily the great female vocalists, and I am very fond of the late cabaret singer Nancy Lamott. -- Laura Lippman
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
Intensely moving but never sentimental, Academy Street is a profound meditation on what Faulkner called 'the human heart in conflict with itself'. In Tess Lohan, Mary Costello has created one of the most fully realized characters in contemporary fiction. What a marvel of a book. -- Ron Rash
What happens with 'Mad Men,' it's like an Elvis Costello album; I'll watch it, and then I immediately have to watch it again. AMC will play it back-to-back. I have a tendency to yell at it when my wife's not around because if she catches me yelling at 'Mad Men,' then it gets weird. -- Michael Weatherly
I was always a fan of the old-style comics. I loved vaudeville. I loved Milton Berle, Dick Shawn, Phyllis Diller, Don Rickles, Charlie Callas, all those guys. Hilarious. I love the Bing Crosby and Bob Hope movies, and Abbott & Costello. My television influences were 'Monty Python's Flying Circus,' 'Benny Hill,' and 'Hee Haw.' -- Larry the Cable Guy
At 5 years old, I saw 'Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein,' and I was so scared when Costello sat himself down in the lap of the monster, not realizing where he was. My friends teased me. They were older, 8 years old. And my goal was to become a mad scientist and get back at them. And here I am, mad as hell! -- Leonard Susskind
My mum was a big fan of E.L.O. and Elvis Costello. She used to play that, consistently, all the time when we were kids. And my dad, he would claim to be a singer... You know, he loves singing, and he used to sing a lot when he was a kid and at parties and stuff like that. So I come from a very party-musical family. -- James Vincent McMorrow

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