Certainly being proficient in an instrument does have its problems. Because the better you get, the more you just start sounding like an ordinary guitarist. There are certainly guitarists that transcend that and do really find their sound and all that sort of stuff.
NICK CAVEI’m a big fan of teatowels and am always on the lookout for a good one.
More Nick Cave Quotes
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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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The society of whores stuck needles in an image of me.
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The blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body.
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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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I’m not religious, and I’m not a Christian, but I do reserve the right to believe in the possibility of a god.
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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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Your limitations make you the wonderful disaster you most probably are.
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I have a particular dislike for children’s films. I’m way past the novelty aspect.
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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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Texting is apocalyptic on some level. It’s a reduction of things.
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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.
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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.
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If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that.
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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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I’ve always had an obligation to creation, above all.
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