It’s always a risky business inviting somebody on stage. You never know what they’re going to do. I try to avoid letting people join me onstage because it can be very distracting, and overly theatrical.
NICK CAVEThe 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.
More Nick Cave Quotes
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Your limitations make you the wonderful disaster you most probably are.
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Guns are part of the American psyche, aren’t they? This is collateral damage for having a Wild West mentality. It’s intrinsic to the American psyche. It’s never going to change.
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Everyone wants to feel that they matter.
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I’ve always done a lot of research and stuff around the songs that I write so there are pages and pages of writing and you can kind of see these songs emerging.
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A gentleman never talks about his tailor.
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The society of whores stuck needles in an image of me.
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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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I’m a big fan of teatowels and am always on the lookout for a good one.
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When I’m singing “Deanna,” for example, which I sing pretty much every night, it brings forward a kind of imagined, romanticized lie about this particular person, which I find really comforting and exciting to sing about.
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The way I go about writing records is that I make a calendar date to start the new record, so I have nothing. I don’t have a bunch of notes that I bring into the office, I start with nothing at all.
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Stars have their moments then they die.
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I’ve spent my life butting my head against other people’s lack of imagination.
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You write a scene, and it works or it doesn’t. It’s immediate.
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The singing tells everybody what to do musically.
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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.
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