Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
The blackbird remained as elusive as ever. Its abiding mysteriousness is one of the greatest bequests of my childhood. If I had thought for a moment that I had understood, it would have been a catastrophe. I might have ended up as an oilman, a banker, or a pimp. An early conviction of mastery or comprehension turns people into monsters. Those myste
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Nick Cave • Faith, Hope and Carnage
So much hope and so much hopelessness.
Nick Cave • Faith, Hope and Carnage
Yorke credited Blood & Chocolate as “the album that made me change the way I thought about recording and writing music. Lyrics, too.” You can hear that influence loud and clear in “Creep.”
Steven Hyden • This Isn't Happening
In Britain, TV producer Jack Good decked him out in black leather like an extra from Marlon Brando’s The Wild One and created the basis for a cult legend; but the reality was more mundane – the usual tale of too much drink and lost money.
Charlie Gillett • The Sound of the City: The Rise of Rock & Roll
‘Wichita Lineman’,
Nick Cave • Faith, Hope and Carnage
with all the love in the world, but an artist does not exist to serve his or her audience. The artist exists to serve the idea. The idea is the light that leads the audience and the artist to a better place.
Nick Cave • Faith, Hope and Carnage
Bowie’s audience was his instrument. Ziggy really couldn’t play guitar; what Ziggy played was the kids.
Rob Sheffield • On Bowie
“If you tried to give rock and roll another name,” John Lennon famously said, “you might call it Chuck Berry.”