We are still struggling with people who don’t feel comfortable going into museums. As a visual artist I ask how artists can be part of enacting a change.
NICK CAVETo sustain hatred is a very difficult thing to do, year after year. It’s exhausting.
More Nick Cave Quotes
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The way I take in the world is by seeing it; that is very much evident in the songs that I write.
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Your limitations make you the wonderful disaster you most probably are.
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I have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don’t like to get my knees dirty. I don’t have a garden.
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I have a particular dislike for children’s films. I’m way past the novelty aspect.
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Everyone wants to feel that they matter.
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In the hysterical technocracy of modern music, sorrow is sent to the back of the class where it sits, pissing its pants in mortal terror.
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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.
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Guns are part of the American psyche, aren’t they? This is collateral damage for having a Wild West mentality. It’s intrinsic to the American psyche. It’s never going to change.
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The problem with books, now that I’ve written one, is that the idea of adaptation is so much easier than sitting down to write something new.
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Kylie Minogue is the greatest thing that has happened to Australian music.
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And she moves among the sparrows. And she floats upon the breeze. She moves among the flowers. She moves something deep inside of me
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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.
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The singing tells everybody what to do musically.
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Writing screenplays makes me a better musician because it clears my head. After writing a movie, I go running back to music as fast as I can.
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I think there’s a certain numbness in modern society, that accepts certain kinds of violence, but represses other kinds of violence.
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