Your limitations make you the wonderful disaster you most probably are.
NICK CAVEEveryone wants to feel that they matter.
More Nick Cave Quotes
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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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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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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 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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You write a scene, and it works or it doesn’t. It’s immediate.
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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.
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We are still struggling with people who don’t feel comfortable going into museums. As a visual artist I ask how artists can be part of enacting a change.
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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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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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A gentleman never talks about his tailor.
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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 think there’s a certain numbness in modern society, that accepts certain kinds of violence, but represses other kinds of violence.
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I have a particular dislike for children’s films. I’m way past the novelty aspect.
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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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Writing is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life.
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