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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.

Nick Cave

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.
NICK CAVE

Country Ordinary People Sound
The writer who refuses to explore the darker regions of the heart will never be able to write convincingly about the wonder, the magic and the joy of love for just as goodness cannot be trusted unless it has breathed the same air as evil.
NICK CAVE

Air Heart Writing
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
To sustain hatred is a very difficult thing to do, year after year. It’s exhausting.
NICK CAVE

Difficult Hatred Years
The society of whores stuck needles in an image of me.
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Needles Reality Stuck
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.
NICK CAVE

Comedy Moments Reaching
The band is a living, breathing thing. It grows in the same way we do as human beings and if it doesn’t, it dies. It’s important to feed the organism, and one way of doing that is to set musical challenges that keep it alive.
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Breathing Challenges Musical
I write hate lyrics really well. It’s not every day you can use them, really.
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Hate Use 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
No wonder sorrow doesn’t smile much. No wonder sadness is so sad.
NICK CAVE

Sadness Sorrow Wonder
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.
NICK CAVE

Leaving Mind People
Your limitations make you the wonderful disaster you most probably are.
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Disaster Limitation Wonderful
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.
NICK CAVE

Artists Museum Struggle
Film seems to be a medium designed for betrayal and violence.
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Betrayal Film Violence
And she moves among the sparrows. And she floats upon the breeze. She moves among the flowers. She moves something deep inside of me
NICK CAVE

Flower Moving Sparrow
Writing screenplays makes me a better musician because it clears my head. After writing a movie, I go running back to music as fast as I can.
NICK CAVE

Musician Running Writing

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