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All of which is making CBS' marketing plans (the better to create a slightly frailer Springsteen) a bit difficult. But by scratching the right back this intrepid writer was finally granted an audience with Costello, with the question of his shunning publicity seeming the obvious place to start. "With press interviews you're at the mercy of the writer to quote you correctly. That's the main reason I don't like doing press interviews. The reason I don't talk about the past is that I feel it's boring. I don't see any point in drawing upon uninteresting things. The things I find exciting are what I'm doing now and what I'll be doing in the future. To talk about anything else seems to be pointless." | All of which is making CBS' marketing plans (the better to create a slightly frailer Springsteen) a bit difficult. But by scratching the right back this intrepid writer was finally granted an audience with Costello, with the question of his shunning publicity seeming the obvious place to start. "With press interviews you're at the mercy of the writer to quote you correctly. That's the main reason I don't like doing press interviews. The reason I don't talk about the past is that I feel it's boring. I don't see any point in drawing upon uninteresting things. The things I find exciting are what I'm doing now and what I'll be doing in the future. To talk about anything else seems to be pointless." | ||
Now with an attitude like that you'd think that ''My Aim Is True'' would be a close encounter of a listening | Now with an attitude like that you'd think that ''My Aim Is True'' would be a close encounter of a listening kind. At the very least it should have Christ-like capabilities. But while the album, containing some nicely crafted pop cum pub ditties bellowed by Costello in Graham Parker range, is good of its kind, it's nothing like the second coming we had been primed to expect. Calling music run-of-the-mill to its creator's face is tantamount to drinking from the same cup as Socrates. But instead of the royal rebuff, Costello responded patiently with the inner workings of his music. "I'm only interested n songs. I don't know music and I don't write music as such. The only reason I care about music at all is that it is the only available medium for writing songs. But, at the same time, I don't consider myself a poet. I'm not obsessed with the written word. But it is the combination of the two that forms itself into a song which is the form I'm totally involved with. | ||
"You remarked as to how my music sounds like a lot of stuff being put out in the seventies. I would like to think that it could become that. I wouldn't want to dominate the entire music scene on my own but some semblance of that is what I'm aiming for. | "You remarked as to how my music sounds like a lot of stuff being put out in the seventies. I would like to think that it could become that. I wouldn't want to dominate the entire music scene on my own but some semblance of that is what I'm aiming for. |
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