Your limitations make you the wonderful disaster you most probably are.
NICK CAVEThe singing tells everybody what to do musically.
More Nick Cave Quotes
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In the hysterical technocracy of modern music, sorrow is sent to the back of the class where it sits, pissing its pants in mortal terror.
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It’s very important that the music has a sense of adventure to it, and that it’s done by the seat of your pants. There’s a kind of nervy element about it.
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You write a scene, and it works or it doesn’t. It’s immediate.
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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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The blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body.
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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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Everyone wants to feel that they matter.
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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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I’ve spent my life butting my head against other people’s lack of imagination.
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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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Stars have their moments then they die.
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I’m unable to really write the kind of song that doesn’t have a visual element, which most songs don’t.
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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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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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