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Hamlet got a gun now.

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Nick Cave
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: September 22
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Warracknabeal
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Nicholas Edward Cave
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I've spent my life butting my head against other people's lack of imagination.
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That's what we [outsiders] feel America is really about - the kind of crazed ravings of the Christian right - when it's probably something quite different.
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The work ethic at art school is completely different than the work ethic amongst people who get into music. People who paint, it's an honorable thing to spend all day and all night in front of your canvas - that is the romantic vision of the painter.
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What I want people to recognize is that we have to keep working together and take charge because we all have the same story.
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I don't like those songs where you have to listen to a story to get into them. I don't want to have to pay attention to music in that way, I just want it to hit me in the heart and do what music's supposed to do.
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'Inspiration' is a word used by people who aren't really doing anything.
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No wonder sorrow doesn’t smile much. No wonder sadness is so sad.
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L.A. is full of screenwriters. I don't know why. On many levels, it's such a thankless occupation.
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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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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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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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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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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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You're one microscopic cog in his catastrophic plan.
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The more information you have, the more human our heroes become and consequently the less mysterious and godlike. They need to be godlike.
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I am not interested in anything that doesn't have a genuine heart to it. You've got to have soul in the hole. If that isn't there, I don't see the point.
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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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Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There's immense happiness that can come from working towards that.
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All of our days are numbered. We cannot afford to be idle. To act on a bad idea is better than to not act at all, because the worth of an idea never becomes apparent until you do it.
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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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