The society of whores stuck needles in an image of me.
NICK CAVEYour limitations make you the wonderful disaster you most probably are.
More Nick Cave Quotes
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In the hysterical technocracy of modern music, sorrow is sent to the back of the class where it sits, pissing its pants in mortal terror.
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Anything that I’m doing I’m writing specifically for a particular project.
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I love rock-n-roll. I think it’s an exciting art form. It’s revolutionary. Still revolutionary and it changed people. It changed their hearts. But yeah, even rock-n-roll has a lot of rubbish, really bad music.
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I think there’s a certain numbness in modern society, that accepts certain kinds of violence, but represses other kinds of violence.
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Moving to the country is a very bold thing to do. You can have vague romantic notions about doing that, but in actuality, it can be a terrifying thing.
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I love being manipulated by what I see. I love weepies and romantic comedies where you’re reaching for the Kleenex at the right moment.
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I think there is a certain perversity in my music in that I continue, you know, to eat at the same ball of vomit year after year.
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I suspect the older you get the more invisible you become.
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Texting is apocalyptic on some level. It’s a reduction of things.
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I’ve watched ‘Oprah Winfrey.’ And I’m proud. I don’t care what anybody says! I don’t know whether I’ve watched it. I’ve been in the room while it’s been on.
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The blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body.
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The artistic process seems to be mythologized quite a lot into something far greater than it actually is. It is just hard labor.
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I’ve spent my life butting my head against other people’s lack of imagination.
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I write songs in batches and then record them and then can’t write again for ages. I try and build one song upon another, they may not obviously look inter-related but often one song acts as a springboard into another.
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If I’m hanging around too much, my wife and kids say, ‘Hey, why don’t you go downstairs and start a new novel?’
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