Nick Cave Quotes
An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany.
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The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
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I am convinced that in order for you, as a patient, to be protected, it has to be transparent, evidence-based, objective information. Not self-serving information. Not pharma-driven information. Not ad-driven information. It is transparent, objective, evidence-based information.
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I'm somebody who gets a lot of inspiration from dreams.
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I feel like Adele is a diva. Not in the bad way. She is one of the greatest voices of this industry and of her own art. What she offers is so unique that she's risen to such a status that very few artists can enjoy.
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The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
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I wrote poetry before I wrote songs, and T.S. Eliot was my inspiration. I love his honesty and try to bring that to my own songwriting.
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I really don't have the time to spend much time online, I do have web tv, which I use when I need information.
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I think freedom for Palestine could be an incredible source of hope to people struggling all over the world. I think it could also be an incredible inspiration to Arab people in the Middle East, who are struggling under undemocratic regimes which the U.S. supports.
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Ricky Martin is one of the artists I wanted to be growing up.
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I actually found not having a routine was inspiration.
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There's no mystery any more. So my instinct is to show very little, because there's much too much information about everyone, everywhere right now. Reality TV is an example of that.
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We were hunter-gatherers of information, and we moved from that to becoming farmers and cultivators of information.
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There was this song I was working on called 'Swing.' It was almost finished, but there was something missing, and I couldn't for the life of me figure it out. And then this little piece of information - this little tweet - came to the forefront of my mind.
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The Internet is programmable information. The blockchain is programmable scarcity.
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Crazy old people are our entire source of polling information.
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I realise I have inadvertently become a source of inspiration and hope for people in India simply by the fact that I grew up there, went to my local university, but could go on to do well internationally.
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Trade isn't about goods. Trade is about information. Goods sit in the warehouse until information moves them.
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If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today.
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There were at least 500-600 proposals after our initial call to artists in early January. We approved a little less than half of them, but not all were made.
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Over the years, I observed that many talented graphic designers, including those in my own family, had difficulty getting their designs to market. I thought it would be possible to hold open stationery design competitions where all designers could participate.
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Il n'est pas certain que tout soit incertain. (Translation: It is not certain that everything is uncertain.)
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At the end of Season 1 of 'Cheers', it was the lowest rated show in all of network television... So we turn to 'Bill Cosby'; when he came to Thursday night, he just exploded. And once the audience was there, we said, 'Hey, by the way, we also have this other great show. It's called 'Cheers'.'
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My dreams never died, they just changed. I still have dreams every day.
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An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany.
