"I'm an Australian, and when I grew up much of my influences were American - blues music and country music, all that sort of thing."

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Nick Cave

#Country Quotes #Influence Quotes #Grew Quotes

“The emancipation of today displays itself mainly in cigarettes and shorts... painted lips and nails, and the return of trailing skirts and other absurdities of dress which betoken the slave-woman's intelligent companionship.”
“When a man says I cannot, he has made a suggestion to himself. He has weakened his power of accomplishing that which otherwise would have been accomplished.”
“I just throw myself into a mad frenzy, whip up a storm and see what comes through.”
“Death is a name for beauty not in use.”

Source : 1953 'Composition in Late Spring', collected in The Collected Poems of Irving Layton (1971).
“Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part.”

Source : "French Music: From the Death of Berlioz to the Death of Fauré". Book by Martin Cooper (p. 136), 1951; later quoted in "Debussy and Wagner", book by Robin Holloway (p. 207), 1979.
“I'm not convinced that the people of Arizona as a nation couldn't do better to protect equal rights for all than the people of Arizona as part of the United States, which is actually not helping them much.”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org
“People think [baseball players] make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only make $500,000.”
“I can't complain, but sometimes I still do.”

Source : Song: Life's Been Good, Album: But Seriously, Folks...

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