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Your limitations make you the wonderful disaster you most probably are.

Nick Cave

Your limitations make you the wonderful disaster you most probably are.
NICK CAVE

Disaster Limitation Wonderful
I’ve spent my life butting my head against other people’s lack of imagination.
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Butting Imagination People
You write a scene, and it works or it doesn’t. It’s immediate.
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Immediate Scene Writing
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
To sustain hatred is a very difficult thing to do, year after year. It’s exhausting.
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Difficult Hatred Years
I write hate lyrics really well. It’s not every day you can use them, really.
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Hate Use Writing
No wonder sorrow doesn’t smile much. No wonder sadness is so sad.
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Sadness Sorrow Wonder
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
Guns are part of the American psyche, aren’t they? This is collateral damage for having a Wild West mentality. It’s intrinsic to the American psyche. It’s never going to change.
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Damage Gun West
I have a particular dislike for children’s films. I’m way past the novelty aspect.
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Children Past Way
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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Anything Inspiration Office People
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.
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Heart Rocks Song
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.
NICK CAVE

Apparatus Looks Moving Tools
When I’m singing “Deanna,” for example, which I sing pretty much every night, it brings forward a kind of imagined, romanticized lie about this particular person, which I find really comforting and exciting to sing about.
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Comforting Lying Night
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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Artistic Labor Process
The singing tells everybody what to do musically.
NICK CAVE

Everybody Musically Singing

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