Nick Cave Quotes
The band is a living, breathing thing. It grows in the same way we do as human beings and if it doesn't, it dies. It's important to feed the organism, and one way of doing that is to set musical challenges that keep it alive.Nick Cave The Birthday Party
Quotes to Explore
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My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in pictures, and I transformed the big drawing room into a library lined with books.
Hamish Bowles -
Who said that artists should sell their soul, expose everything about themselves?
Vanessa Paradis -
That is where consensus-building begins-with the idea that you have your own truth, but that the negotiator on the other side of the table has his own truth as well.
Harri Holkeri -
Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture.
Orhan Pamuk -
I've actually done a lot of comedy.
Natalie Zea -
What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.
Fay Godwin
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It's a special place, and I believe in the prominence of America, and having America be and continue to be an exceptional place, and making no apologies for America being a superpower.
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen -
It's a remarkable exercise to sit and look at your own work over the years.
Vera Wang -
You don't go out and play Beethoven's 'Opus 111' without having rethought about it every time you play.
Daniel Barenboim -
All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.
Jack Bowman -
I always fall in love with qualities of people I work with.
Laura Dern -
I'm John Lee Hooker in the sense that he was a blues man and he played blues his whole life. I'm a rock guy and I'm going to play rock music my whole life.
Sammy Hagar Van Halen
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Playing Willie Loomis was really fun for me because it was something nice and different to embody. It was neat playing this drunken servant who was hypnotized by Johnny Depp.
Jackie Earle Haley -
As a longtime fan of talk radio, I'm very worried about the low opinion that conservative hosts and callers have of the American artist. Art is portrayed as a scam, a rip-off and snow job pushed by snobbish elites.
Camille Paglia -
You are never really prepared for criticism.
Barry Gibb Bee Gees -
I don't believe in murder.
Kabir Bedi -
The main thing that you have to remember on this journey is, just be nice to everyone and always smile.
Ed Sheeran -
Every role is easy. As an actor it is my job to make my job easy. If I start hyperventilating about my roles, then how will I do it? So, with all my roles, somewhere I feel comfortable about them, and that is why I play them.
Rani Mukerji
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I felt so free in space, flying around and unrestrained by any social relationships, but my life since has changed a lot. Now I am extra-careful about what I say and do because everyone recognises me.
Yi So-Yeon -
When I first came to America, you know, I would look at the newsstands and see the women on the magazine covers. I had never seen anyone smile the way these girls smile! It's like they have nothing to worry about!
Anchee Min -
God gave me a voice to sing with, and when you have that, what other gimmick is there?
Whitney Houston -
I came from a real tough neighborhood. On my street, the kids take hubcaps - from moving cars.
Jack Roy -
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it. One should earn one's living by work of which one is sure one is capable. Only when we do not have to be accountable to anybody can we find joy in scientific endeavor.
Albert Einstein -
The band is a living, breathing thing. It grows in the same way we do as human beings and if it doesn't, it dies. It's important to feed the organism, and one way of doing that is to set musical challenges that keep it alive.
Nick Cave The Birthday Party