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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.
Nick Cave
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Nick Cave
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: September 22
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Nicholas Edward Cave
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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've never been interested in being relevant.
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I write a lot, and very often I write a couple of lines that are particularly revealing in some kind of way. And then as a few more lines get added and a piece gets added, eventually the song pretty much takes over and you can't really find a way to change those things.
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Oh, a passing, skeptical kind of interest. I'm a hammer-and-nails kind of guy.
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There's always pain around. That's one thing you can guarantee in life - there will always be a surplus of pain.
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God has matured. He is not the impulsive, bowelless being of the Testaments - the vehement glorymonger, with His bag of cheap carny tricks and his booming voice - the fiery huckster with his burning bushes and his wonder wands. Nowadays God knows what He wants and He knows who He wants.
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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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You're collaborating with people you don't even know, when you're making a film. You're collaborating with people you've never seen. So, the collaborative process is very, very different than when you're collaborating on a record with the musicians you've worked with all your life.
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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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Sorrow's child grieves not what has passed, but all the past still yet to come.
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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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