Anything that I’m doing I’m writing specifically for a particular project.
NICK CAVECertainly 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.
More Nick Cave Quotes
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Your limitations make you the wonderful disaster you most probably are.
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Moving to the country is a very bold thing to do. You can have vague romantic notions about doing that, but in actuality, it can be a terrifying thing.
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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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The society of whores stuck needles in an image of me.
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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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Sorrow’s child grieves not what has passed, but all the past still yet to come.
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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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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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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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I’m not religious, and I’m not a Christian, but I do reserve the right to believe in the possibility of a god.
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To sustain hatred is a very difficult thing to do, year after year. It’s exhausting.
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If I’m hanging around too much, my wife and kids say, ‘Hey, why don’t you go downstairs and start a new novel?’
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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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That’s what we [outsiders] feel America is really about – the kind of crazed ravings of the Christian right – when it’s probably something quite different.
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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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