I’ve spent my life butting my head against other people’s lack of imagination.
NICK CAVEI 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
More Nick Cave Quotes
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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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If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that.
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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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Texting is apocalyptic on some level. It’s a reduction of things.
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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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The society of whores stuck needles in an image of me.
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The singing tells everybody what to do musically.
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Your limitations make you the wonderful disaster you most probably are.
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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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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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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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I suspect the older you get the more invisible you become.
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Everyone wants to feel that they matter.
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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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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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