Nick Cave Quotes
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You don't meet a lot of people that you really like. I don't anyway.
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I know when I sit with my band members and we're playing back a song that we've done, I know that they're experiencing it in a completely different way and hearing stuff that they're alerted to because the way the interpret the world is through their ears. Mine is through my eyes.
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No wonder sorrow doesn’t smile much. No wonder sadness is so sad.
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Most people wait for the muse to turn up. That's terribly unreliable. I have to sit down and pursue the muse by attempting to work.
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Out of sorrow entire worlds have been built out of longing great wonders have been willed they're only little tears darling let them spill and lay your head upon my shoulder.
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Accessible local libraries are vital to communities and to children.
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You write a scene, and it works or it doesn't. It's immediate.
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Most of the time, feelings just seem to get in the way. They're a luxury for the idle, a bourgeois concept. Feelings are overrated.
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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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I don't really do Japanese interviews. I don't think there's much call for me in Japan.
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The singing tells everybody what to do musically.
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I've always worn suits. To me they're a very practical kind of thing to wear. You put one on and don't really have to think about what you're going to wear.
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Some are exploring the world through the subconscious. I've done that on occasions for various reasons, whether it be illness or self abuse, or whatever. Once things start to look grotesque I don't write them or sing them. I couldn't write them - making nightmares into living daylight...The minute it gets dark I shoot back, retreat.