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Nick Cave

If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that.
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Autumn Hard Work Years
The society of whores stuck needles in an image of me.
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Needles Reality Stuck
I’m very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It’s the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange.
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Art Beautiful Inspire
Your limitations make you the wonderful disaster you most probably are.
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Disaster Limitation Wonderful
The problem with books, now that I’ve written one, is that the idea of adaptation is so much easier than sitting down to write something new.
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Book Ideas Writing
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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Heart Looks Muse Poet
Writing is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life.
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Beneficial Levels Writing
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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Elements Song Writing
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
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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Real Records World
I’m an Australian, and when I grew up much of my influences were American – blues music and country music, all that sort of thing.
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Country Grew Influence
Sorrow’s child grieves not what has passed, but all the past still yet to come.
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Children Grieving Past
You write a scene, and it works or it doesn’t. It’s immediate.
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Immediate Scene Writing
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
I’ve always had an obligation to creation, above all.
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Always Creation Obligation

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