Your limitations make you the wonderful disaster you most probably are. Nick Cave More Quotes by Nick Cave More Quotes From Nick Cave There are methods to creating a mayhem that sounds different from your usual mayhem. Because mayhem and a heavy drum backbeat end up sounding like Green Day or something. But if you put a different beat within it to create some air and lightness, the chaos comes through better. Nick Cave creatingairsound It's very intuitive, the way that I approach my work. I only buy something that has a pulse. I may not know how I'm going to use it, but I know it has a pulse and it has multiple readings - if I shift it one way or another, it can be read this way or it can be read that way, but both readings are critical and very much ground the work. Nick Cave pulsereadinguse I'm not in the business of telling people what to do. I'm much more in the business of describing things, situations and stuff like that and leaving them out there, and you can make up your minds about them. Nick Cave leavingmindpeople Well, as anyone who actually writes knows, if you sit down and are prepared, then the ideas come. There's a lot of different ways people explain that, but, you know, I find that if I sit down and I prepare myself, generally things get done. Nick Cave writingpeopleideas The songs that I like are the ones that you can't visualize, that are just cries from the heart - those very straight, direct songs that make rock & roll music so wonderful. Nick Cave rocksheartsong I am the captain of my pain. Nick Cave captainspainphilosophy If you got a trumpet, get on your feet, brother, and blow it! Nick Cave brotherblowfeet And I kissed away a thousand tears My lady of the Various Sorrows Some begged, some borrowed, some stolen Some kept safe for tomorrow. Nick Cave tearssorrowsafe Sound doesn't always have to be heard. Sound can also be created by how a pattern is set up on a surface- how it moves across the surface, how light reflects the surface [and] can generate a feeling. Sound can also be through feeling, through color, through texture. Nick Cave colorlightmoving You searched through all my poets, From Sappho through to Auden, I saw the book fall from your hands, As you slowly died of boredom. Nick Cave bookhandsfall My biggest fear is losing memory because memory is what we are. Your very soul and your very reason to be alive is tied up in memory. Nick Cave alivesoulmemories I've spent my life butting my head against other people's lack of imagination. Nick Cave imaginationpeople The older I get, the more I feel those kinds of ghosts - especially the women in my life - moving out of the shadows a bit more and becoming more present in my life. Nick Cave becomingshadowmoving The society of whores stuck needles in an image of me. Nick Cave needlesstuckreality It's very important that the music has a sense of adventure to it, and that it's done by the seat of your pants. There's a kind of nervy element about it. Nick Cave elementsimportantadventure If you're Australian, you feel it in your bones because you're at odds with everybody else, except other Australians, in the sense that people always seem to be behaving strangely. People always seem to be behaving the wrong way, in a different way. You say things and there are silences. Nick Cave silenceoddspeople 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 heartsongattention If I'm hanging around too much, my wife and kids say, 'Hey, why don't you go downstairs and start a new novel?' Nick Cave heywifekids I love rock-n-roll. I think it's an exciting art form. It's revolutionary. Still revolutionary and it changed people. It changed their hearts. But yeah, even rock-n-roll has a lot of rubbish, really bad music. Nick Cave rocksartthinking Cynicism and defensiveness are two things constantly levelled at me. Look, I've got time for people, I'm good mannered. I usually find that when you're down, nobody has a bloody minute for you. If I was a nobody, you wouldn't even talk to me. People, in general, don't like you being upfront and civil. They hate you for it. They label you a cynic 'cos you're reasonable. Nick Cave good-manhatepeople
