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Nick Cave Inspirational Quotes (125)

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I write songs from the point of view I had at a timeI'm not tryingto write songs from a young person's point of view.That only ends in disaster.
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I have a particular dislike for children's films. I'm way past the novelty aspect.
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Hamlet got a gun now.
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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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I don't believe in an interventionist God
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Some are exploring the world through the subconscious. I've done that on occasions for various reasons, whether it be illness or self abuse, or whatever. Once things start to look grotesque I don't write them or sing them. I couldn't write them - making nightmares into living daylight...The minute it gets dark I shoot back, retreat.
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Your limitations make you the wonderful disaster you most probably are.
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A gentleman never talks about his tailor.
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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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I don't really do Japanese interviews. I don't think there's much call for me in Japan.
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Look, when I look back, from 20 onwards, I was actually having a pretty good time, I have to say.
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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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I lost my innocence with Johnny Cash. I used to watch the Johnny Cash Show on television in Wangaratta when I was about 9 or 10 years old. At that stage I had really no idea about rock'n'roll. I watched him and from that point I saw that music could be an evil thing, a beautiful, evil thing.
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My music has to do with beauty, and it's intended to, if not lift the spirits, then be a kind of a balm to the spirits.
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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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I can control the weather with my moods. I just can’t control my moods.
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When I start writing songs, and they come easily, I'm always very suspicious. That usually means they're reminding me of something I've already done before. When the songs become unsettling, and I feel anxious about what I'm doing, that usually means it's going to be more interesting later on when we actually record the stuff.
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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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Everyone wants to feel that they matter.
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Into the mercy seat I climb My head is shaved, my head is wired And like a moth that tries To enter the bright eye I go shuffling out of life Just to hide in death awhile And anyway I never lied.
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I've spent my life butting my head against other people's lack of imagination.
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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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The way I go about writing records is that I make a calendar date to start the new record, so I have nothing. I don't have a bunch of notes that I bring into the office, I start with nothing at all.
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To my undying shame, I do read reviews. I don't read them all, but I like to get some kind of idea how things are going.
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