We as visual artists need to continue to be renegades and say, “Yes I am here to do a project, but what is the social service?”
NICK CAVEI have things that I’m interested in, and I’m not really interested in writing about anything that I’m not interested in. But it’s important to me to be able to see it from a different perspective, and add something new to the whole picture.
More Nick Cave Quotes
-
-
I know when I sit with my band members and we’re playing back a song that we’ve done, I know that they’re experiencing it in a completely different way and hearing stuff that they’re alerted to because the way the interpret the world is through their ears. Mine is through my eyes.
NICK CAVE -
Jesus Christ was the biggest blight on the human race, he was. And all them socialists and communists – second rate Christianity.
NICK CAVE -
The artistic process seems to be mythologized quite a lot into something far greater than it actually is. It is just hard labor.
NICK CAVE -
I write hate lyrics really well. It’s not every day you can use them, really.
NICK CAVE -
When I’m singing “Deanna,” for example, which I sing pretty much every night, it brings forward a kind of imagined, romanticized lie about this particular person, which I find really comforting and exciting to sing about.
NICK CAVE -
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.
NICK CAVE -
The singing tells everybody what to do musically.
NICK CAVE -
No wonder sorrow doesn’t smile much. No wonder sadness is so sad.
NICK CAVE -
It’s very important that the music has a sense of adventure to it, and that it’s done by the seat of your pants. There’s a kind of nervy element about it.
NICK CAVE -
The body becomes the carrier for the work. It’s not really about the physical body; it really becomes the apparatus that carries and moves the work. I don’t really consider the body as much; I look at it as a tool.
NICK CAVE -
Sorrow’s child grieves not what has passed, but all the past still yet to come.
NICK CAVE -
To sustain hatred is a very difficult thing to do, year after year. It’s exhausting.
NICK CAVE -
I write songs in batches and then record them and then can’t write again for ages. I try and build one song upon another, they may not obviously look inter-related but often one song acts as a springboard into another.
NICK CAVE -
The blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body.
NICK CAVE -
If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that.
NICK CAVE