Catapult Quotes
Mr. Churchill you were given a mission.
- Yes
- I want to have been given your mission. I want your place in world events, the centrality of it. You were born in the cradle of a catapult!
- You are wrong. I found my mission.
- I disagree.
- If you must.
- Tell me: where is my mission? Where are my bunkers and trenches, my goddamn Gallipoli?
Dave Eggers
Writing a good song is not mimicry, or replication, or pastiche, it is the opposite, it is an act of self-murder that destroys all one has strived to produce in the past. It is those dangerous, heart-stopping departures that catapult the artist beyond the limits of what he or she recognises as their known self. This is part of the authentic creative struggle that precedes the invention of a unique lyric of actual value; it is the breathless confrontation with one's vulnerability, one's perilousness, one's smallness, pitted against a sense of sudden shocking discovery; it is the redemptive artistic act that stirs the heart of the listener, where the listener recognizes in the inner workings of the song their own blood, their own struggle, their own suffering.
Nick Cave
