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 CAVEThe society of whores stuck needles in an image of me.
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 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.
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You write a scene, and it works or it doesn’t. It’s immediate.
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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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We as visual artists need to continue to be renegades and say, “Yes I am here to do a project, but what is the social service?”
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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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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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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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Writing is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life.
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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 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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Your limitations make you the wonderful disaster you most probably are.
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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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To sustain hatred is a very difficult thing to do, year after year. It’s exhausting.
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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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