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Nick Cave

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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Business People Risky Trying
Sorrow’s child grieves not what has passed, but all the past still yet to come.
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Children Grieving Past
And I kissed away a thousand tears My lady of the Various Sorrows Some begged, some borrowed, some stolen Some kept safe for tomorrow.
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Safe Sorrow Tears
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
A gentleman never talks about his tailor.
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Gentleman Southern Gentleman Tailors
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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Heart Looks Muse Poet
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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Numbness Thinking Violence
Everyone wants to feel that they matter.
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Feels Matter Want
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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Song World Writing
I’m a big fan of teatowels and am always on the lookout for a good one.
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Bigs Fans Lookout
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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Comedy Moments Reaching
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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Musician Running Writing
I suspect the older you get the more invisible you become.
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Country Invisible People Suspects
The blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body.
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Body Cells Musical
Stars have their moments then they die.
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Dies Moments Stars
You write a scene, and it works or it doesn’t. It’s immediate.
NICK CAVE

Immediate Scene Writing

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