What Nick Cave thinks about ideas vs execution

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Australian songwriter and writer, frontman of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Since 2018 he has answered readers' questions in public at The Red Hand Files, where most of what he has said about how songs are made now lives.

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1. 29 Jun 2021

   Our readingA maker cannot summon the good line, only be at the desk when it arrives, and the outcome is not theirs to influence.

   Their wordsPen poised, I sit to attention, in my suit, on the edge of my imagination, prepared for the beautiful line to arrive. Sometimes it does, sometimes it does not — either way I am powerless to influence the outcome.

   ↗Do you think it is more important to find inspiration or to get to work and write?theredhandfiles.com 2nd of 2 in this piece