![Elvis Costello Quotes: We're all just animals. That's all we are, and everything else is just an elaborate justification of our instincts. That's where music comes from. And romantic poetry. And bad novels.](https://www.quoteslyfe.com/images/collection3/quotations296/We-re-all-just-animals-That-s-296284.jpg)
We're all just animals. That's all we are, and everything else is just an elaborate justification of our instincts. That's where music comes from. And romantic poetry. And bad novels.
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This page presents the quote "We're all just animals. That's all we are, and everything else is just an elaborate justification of our instincts. That's where music comes from. And romantic poetry. And bad novels.". Author of this quote is Elvis Costello. This quote is about animals, romantic, poetry,.