I’ve always done a lot of research and stuff around the songs that I write so there are pages and pages of writing and you can kind of see these songs emerging.
NICK CAVEI’m a big fan of teatowels and am always on the lookout for a good one.
More Nick Cave Quotes
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Texting is apocalyptic on some level. It’s a reduction of things.
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A gentleman never talks about his tailor.
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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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If I’m hanging around too much, my wife and kids say, ‘Hey, why don’t you go downstairs and start a new novel?’
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I’ve spent my life butting my head against other people’s lack of imagination.
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Jesus Christ was the biggest blight on the human race, he was. And all them socialists and communists – second rate Christianity.
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I am not interested in anything that doesn’t have a genuine heart to it. You’ve got to have soul in the hole. If that isn’t there, I don’t see the point.
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I have a particular dislike for children’s films. I’m way past the novelty aspect.
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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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Writing is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life.
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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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No wonder sorrow doesn’t smile much. No wonder sadness is so sad.
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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.
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Sorrow’s child grieves not what has passed, but all the past still yet to come.
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The singing tells everybody what to do musically.
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