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Nick Cave Inspirational Quotes (125)

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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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My responsibility as an artist is to turn up at the page or the piano or the microphone. The rest is up to God.
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Stars have their moments then they die.
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Most people wait for the muse to turn up. That's terribly unreliable. I have to sit down and pursue the muse by attempting to work.
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It's an Australian thing to be dismissive. We find that endearing. Americans don't. They believe what you say.
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Oh, a passing, skeptical kind of interest. I'm a hammer-and-nails kind of guy.
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The editing of a song is largely what makes the song for me and I think that actually if I had started going like 'I want you to burn' it would have pinned that song down to a particular thing and made that song a smaller idea than what it is. By leaving that off it's much more open, broader.
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I don't write happy songs. Who does? I don't know anybody who writes happy songs, really.
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I'm not a misogynist, so you can dispense with that. I think I've done wonders for the feminist movement.
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I'm a big fan of teatowels and am always on the lookout for a good one.
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I've always done a lot of research and stuff around the songs that I write so there are pages and pages of writing and you can kind of see these songs emerging.
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Said 2,000 years of Christian history, baby And you ain't learned to love me yet?
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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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Sometimes the song isn't strong enough to contain the fiction, because memories are fictions.
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The problem with books, now that I've written one, is that the idea of adaptation is so much easier than sitting down to write something new.
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The older I get, the more I feel those kinds of ghosts - especially the women in my life - moving out of the shadows a bit more and becoming more present in my life.
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I’ve never intended to make religious records or records that preach some kind of point of view... If you’re involved with imagination and the creative process, it’s not such a difficult thing to believe in a god. But I’m not involved in any religions.
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In the hysterical technocracy of modern music, sorrow is sent to the back of the class where it sits, pissing its pants in mortal terror.
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You're one microscopic cog in his catastrophic plan.
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I have to be able to pull you in. How can I diversify my audiences? What role do I have to play to be part of that shift? I have to take that seriously.
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'Inspiration' is a word used by people who aren't really doing anything.
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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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I've always hated narrative songs. I hate those songs where, basically, it's an unfolding of a story.
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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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