The songs that I like are the ones that you can’t visualize, that are just cries from the heart – those very straight, direct songs that make rock & roll music so wonderful.
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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Writing is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life.
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Texting is apocalyptic on some level. It’s a reduction of things.
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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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I’m not in the business of telling people what to do. I’m much more in the business of describing things, situations and stuff like that and leaving them out there, and you can make up your minds about them.
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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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Your limitations make you the wonderful disaster you most probably are.
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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 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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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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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 have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don’t like to get my knees dirty. I don’t have a garden.
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I don’t really care who collects my work, black, white, red, yellow. You have to also be consciously aware of, what does this mean in your home? And how are you supporting this work and the message behind the work?
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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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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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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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