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And I kissed away a thousand tears My lady of the Various Sorrows Some begged, some borrowed, some stolen Some kept safe for tomorrow.

Nick Cave

The blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body.
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Body Cells Musical
I’ve spent my life butting my head against other people’s lack of imagination.
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Butting Imagination People
The society of whores stuck needles in an image of me.
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Needles Reality Stuck
No wonder sorrow doesn’t smile much. No wonder sadness is so sad.
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Sadness Sorrow Wonder
Everyone wants to feel that they matter.
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Feels Matter Want
The singing tells everybody what to do musically.
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Everybody Musically Singing
I look at you and you look at me and deep in our hearts know it That you weren’t much of a muse, but then I weren’t much of a poet
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Heart Looks Muse Poet
The songs that I like are the ones that you can’t visualize, that are just cries from the heart – those very straight, direct songs that make rock & roll music so wonderful.
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Heart Rocks Song
The band is a living, breathing thing. It grows in the same way we do as human beings and if it doesn’t, it dies. It’s important to feed the organism, and one way of doing that is to set musical challenges that keep it alive.
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Breathing Challenges Musical
Texting is apocalyptic on some level. It’s a reduction of things.
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Levels Reduction Texting
Stars have their moments then they die.
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Dies Moments Stars
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 not in the business of telling people what to do. I’m much more in the business of describing things, situations and stuff like that and leaving them out there, and you can make up your minds about them.
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Leaving Mind People
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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Care Proud Room
Kylie Minogue is the greatest thing that has happened to Australian music.
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Australian Country Day Happened People
You write a scene, and it works or it doesn’t. It’s immediate.
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Immediate Scene 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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