Nick Cave Quotes

There's an element to songwriting that I can't explain, that comes from somewhere else. I can't explain that dividing line between nothing and something that happens within a song, where you have absolutely nothing, and then suddenly you have something. It's like the origin of the universe.

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• Nothing external to you has any power over you.

  

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• I feel so gratified about having finished college. I learned how to articulate myself. It gave me confidence more than anything. And also the ability to analyze the text.

  

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• You know they're not going to lose 162 consecutive games.

  

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• Meditation helps me to calm down.

  

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• America is huge.

  

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• There is a clear link between illegal migrants coming to Europe and the spread of terrorism.

  

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• It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.

  

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• I was looking for the people who were making the music inside the cabinet. I would look in there and see if I could find somebody who was making all this wonderful music.

  

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• Why does 'writer' have no gender, but 'actor' has a gender? What is that?

  

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• The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

  

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• Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit.

  

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• It's never been an issue for me - I don't want to go on a diet, I don't want to eat a Caesar salad with no dressing, why would I do that? I ain't got time for this, just be happy and don't be stupid. If I've got a boyfriend and he loves my body then I'm not worried.

  

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• Nobody leaves this band unless it's in a coffin.

  

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• Owning your curves means being confident - actually being confident - in your own skin.

  

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• You say how you feel, and songs don't lie. Songs are the most honest form of human expression there is--there's nothing that lies about a song.

  

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• What I know for sure is that behind every catastrophe, there are great lessons to be learned. Among the many that we as a country need to get is that as long as we play the "us and them" game, we don't evolve as people, as a nation, as a planet.

  

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• I was an impostor, the worthy associate of a brigand, andc., andc., and all this for an atom of chlorine put in the place of an atom of hydrogen, for the simple correction of a chemical formula!

  

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• I was preppy, then suddenly switched around age 14. I asked my mother to go to this vintage store, and she let me buy a leopard swing coat, pink cigarette pants, and lime-green gloves.

  

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• Both she and I have grief enough and trouble enough, but as for regrets – neither of us have any.

  

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• No man has a right to be idle. Where is it that in such a world as this, that health, and leisure, and affluence may not find some ignorance to instruct, some wrong to redress, some want to supply, some misery to alleviate?

  

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• There's an element to songwriting that I can't explain, that comes from somewhere else. I can't explain that dividing line between nothing and something that happens within a song, where you have absolutely nothing, and then suddenly you have something. It's like the origin of the universe.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
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