At the end, we're kind of observers - creative people, I mean. I feel like an observer, and I'm pretty much able to step out of things and see how things are playing out.
Interpretation
Creative individuals often have a unique perspective that allows them to observe situations rather than just experience them.
In this quote, Nick Cave expresses the idea that creative people tend to step back from their experiences, allowing them to observe and analyze the world around them. This detached observation grants them insights that can enhance their creativity and understanding of human experiences, affirming the role of reflection in the creative process.
In practice
During a lecture on creativity, this quote could be used to emphasize the importance of perspective in artistic endeavors.
The idea of songwriting is a transformative thing, and what I do with songwriting is take situations that are quite ordinary and transform them in some way. Apart from things like the murder ballads, the songs I write, at their core, are quite ordinary human concerns, but the process of writing about them transforms them into something else.
The writer who refuses to explore the darker regions of the heart will never be able to write convincingly about the wonder, the magic and the joy of love for just as goodness cannot be trusted unless it has breathed the same air as evil.
But if you're gonna dine with them cannibals Sooner or later, darling, you're gonna get eaten . . .
Music is storming, driving, relentless, devotional, slinky, subtle, heartbreakingly-beautiful sounds that, lyrically, switch from the cynical to the sanguine, the defeated to the defiant, dealing in love, war, beauty, children, romance, rejection, Pethedine, poetry, panties, God, Auden, Johnny Cash, cold potatoes, too-much-money, not enough money, writer’s block, flowers, animals and more flowers. But maybe I’m projecting here.
Who knows their own story? It certainly makes no sense when you’re in the middle of it
And I wish that I was made of stone So that I would not have to see A beauty impossible to define A beauty impossible to believe A beauty impossible to endure The blood imparted in little sips The smell of you still on my hands As I bring the cup up to my lips No God up in the sky No devil beneath the sea Could do the job that you did, baby Of bringing me to my knees
All bad precedents begin as justifiable measures.
To believe in luck, if it were not a solecism so to use the word believe, is skepticism.
Genocide, after all, is an exercise in community building.
We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts.
The most dangerous thing is illusion.
I sometimes find it half a sin, To put to words the grief i feel, For words like nature,half reveal, and half conceal the soul within.
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