I’ve watched ‘Oprah Winfrey.’ And I’m proud. I don’t care what anybody says! I don’t know whether I’ve watched it. I’ve been in the room while it’s been on.
NICK CAVENo wonder sorrow doesn’t smile much. No wonder sadness is so sad.
More Nick Cave Quotes
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I’ve spent my life butting my head against other people’s lack of imagination.
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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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I’m a big fan of teatowels and am always on the lookout for a good one.
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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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I look at you and you look at me and deep in our hearts know it That you weren’t much of a muse, but then I weren’t much of a poet
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The way I go about writing records is that I make a calendar date to start the new record, so I have nothing. I don’t have a bunch of notes that I bring into the office, I start with nothing at all.
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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.
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Kylie Minogue is the greatest thing that has happened to Australian music.
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You write a scene, and it works or it doesn’t. It’s immediate.
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Film seems to be a medium designed for betrayal and violence.
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The songs that I like are the ones that you can’t visualize, that are just cries from the heart – those very straight, direct songs that make rock & roll music so wonderful.
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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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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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The singing tells everybody what to do musically.
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Certainly being proficient in an instrument does have its problems. Because the better you get, the more you just start sounding like an ordinary guitarist. There are certainly guitarists that transcend that and do really find their sound and all that sort of stuff.
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I suspect the older you get the more invisible you become.
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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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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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I write hate lyrics really well. It’s not every day you can use them, really.
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The blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body.
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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?”
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The band is a living, breathing thing. It grows in the same way we do as human beings and if it doesn’t, it dies. It’s important to feed the organism, and one way of doing that is to set musical challenges that keep it alive.
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Texting is apocalyptic on some level. It’s a reduction of things.
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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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If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that.
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The writer who refuses to explore the darker regions of the heart will never be able to write convincingly about the wonder, the magic and the joy of love for just as goodness cannot be trusted unless it has breathed the same air as evil.
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