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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.

Nick Cave

Anything that I’m doing I’m writing specifically for a particular project.
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Particular Projects Writing
A gentleman never talks about his tailor.
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Gentleman Southern Gentleman Tailors
Sorrow’s child grieves not what has passed, but all the past still yet to come.
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Children Grieving Past
I suspect the older you get the more invisible you become.
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Country Invisible People Suspects
I have a particular dislike for children’s films. I’m way past the novelty aspect.
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Children Past Way
I am not interested in anything that doesn’t have a genuine heart to it. You’ve got to have soul in the hole. If that isn’t there, I don’t see the point.
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Heart Holes Soul
Your limitations make you the wonderful disaster you most probably are.
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Disaster Limitation Wonderful
The body becomes the carrier for the work. It’s not really about the physical body; it really becomes the apparatus that carries and moves the work. I don’t really consider the body as much; I look at it as a tool.
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Apparatus Looks Moving Tools
Stars have their moments then they die.
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Dies Moments Stars
I’ve always had an obligation to creation, above all.
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Always Creation Obligation
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
To sustain hatred is a very difficult thing to do, year after year. It’s exhausting.
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Difficult Hatred Years
The way I take in the world is by seeing it; that is very much evident in the songs that I write.
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Song World Writing
Inspiration is a word used by people who aren’t really doing anything. I go into my office every day that I’m in Brighton and work. Whether I feel like it or not is irrelevant.
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Anything Inspiration Office People
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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Artistic Labor Process
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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Numbness Thinking Violence

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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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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