"Songwriting, I have to take myself away from……" — Nick Cave

"Songwriting, I have to take myself away from everybody to do. It's an unsightly act."

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160 Quotes by Nick Cave

Nick Cave has 160 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of…
At some point you start seeing the difference between what you really want, and what is your priority order. I…
I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward.…
An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You…
The blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body.
I love rock-n-roll. I think it's an exciting art form. It's revolutionary. Still revolutionary and it changed people. It changed…
In getting older, I find myself becoming progressively more ineffectual in a lot of different ways, and part of that…
I'm not religious, and I'm not a Christian, but I do reserve the right to believe in the possibility of…
A gentleman never talks about his tailor.
If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that.
The rock star is dying. And it's a small tragedy. Rock stars have blogs now. I have no use for…
There's always pain around. That's one thing you can guarantee in life - there will always be a surplus of…

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More Act Quotes

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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has… — Hannah Arendt
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,… — Aristotle
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold
Criticize the act, not the person. — Mary Kay Ash
We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure… — Julian Assange
Gardening is not a rational act. — Margaret Atwood
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden

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