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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.

Nick Cave

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Nick Cave
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: September 22
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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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Everybody tends to overplay live. That's just the nature of playing live. And that can be great, but it can also kill something that's special, and intimate, about a recorded version of a song. You find out very quickly which songs you can play, and which songs you do damage to by playing them live.
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I feel very much a part of what I'm writing about, and I'm writing about things that concern me on a daily basis. I'm not really interested in writing musical diaries, if you know what I mean.
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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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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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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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Your limitations make you the wonderful disaster you most probably are.
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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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Said 2,000 years of Christian history, baby And you ain't learned to love me yet?
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At school I was an anti-magnet for women.
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I've spent my life butting my head against other people's lack of imagination.
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A is for Answering all your prayers, N is for kNowing that your loverman's going to be the answer.
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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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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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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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