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 CAVEI’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.
More Nick Cave Quotes
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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.
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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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To sustain hatred is a very difficult thing to do, year after year. It’s exhausting.
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The society of whores stuck needles in an image of me.
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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 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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I write hate lyrics really well. It’s not every day you can use them, really.
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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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No wonder sorrow doesn’t smile much. No wonder sadness is so sad.
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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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Your limitations make you the wonderful disaster you most probably are.
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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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Film seems to be a medium designed for betrayal and violence.
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And she moves among the sparrows. And she floats upon the breeze. She moves among the flowers. She moves something deep inside of me
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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.
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