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Your limitations make you the wonderful disaster you most probably are.

Nick Cave

Writing screenplays makes me a better musician because it clears my head. After writing a movie, I go running back to music as fast as I can.
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Musician Running Writing
And I kissed away a thousand tears My lady of the Various Sorrows Some begged, some borrowed, some stolen Some kept safe for tomorrow.
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Safe Sorrow Tears
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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Balls Thinking Years
If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that.
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Autumn Hard Work Years
Jesus Christ was the biggest blight on the human race, he was. And all them socialists and communists – second rate Christianity.
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Christianity Communist Jesus
I’m a big fan of teatowels and am always on the lookout for a good one.
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Bigs Fans Lookout
I know when I sit with my band members and we’re playing back a song that we’ve done, I know that they’re experiencing it in a completely different way and hearing stuff that they’re alerted to because the way the interpret the world is through their ears. Mine is through my eyes.
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Different Eye Song
The society of whores stuck needles in an image of me.
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Needles Reality Stuck
The problem with books, now that I’ve written one, is that the idea of adaptation is so much easier than sitting down to write something new.
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Book Ideas Writing
I have things that I’m interested in, and I’m not really interested in writing about anything that I’m not interested in. But it’s important to me to be able to see it from a different perspective, and add something new to the whole picture.
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Important Perspective Writing
I suspect the older you get the more invisible you become.
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Country Invisible People Suspects
The singing tells everybody what to do musically.
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Everybody Musically Singing
And she moves among the sparrows. And she floats upon the breeze. She moves among the flowers. She moves something deep inside of me
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Flower Moving Sparrow
My records are basically a litany of complaints against the world, and I’m quite like that in real life as well.
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Real Records World
I’ve spent my life butting my head against other people’s lack of imagination.
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Butting Imagination People
The writer who refuses to explore the darker regions of the heart will never be able to write convincingly about the wonder, the magic and the joy of love for just as goodness cannot be trusted unless it has breathed the same air as evil.
NICK CAVE

Air Heart Writing

Your limitations make you the wonderful disaster you most probably are.

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