Anything that I’m doing I’m writing specifically for a particular project.
NICK CAVEI’m not religious, and I’m not a Christian, but I do reserve the right to believe in the possibility of a god.
More Nick Cave Quotes
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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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I don’t really care who collects my work, black, white, red, yellow. You have to also be consciously aware of, what does this mean in your home? And how are you supporting this work and the message behind the work?
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I 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.
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And I kissed away a thousand tears My lady of the Various Sorrows Some begged, some borrowed, some stolen Some kept safe for tomorrow.
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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.
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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 artistic process seems to be mythologized quite a lot into something far greater than it actually is. It is just hard labor.
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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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I’m not in the business of telling people what to do. I’m much more in the business of describing things, situations and stuff like that and leaving them out there, and you can make up your minds about them.
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The singing tells everybody what to do musically.
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I have a particular dislike for children’s films. I’m way past the novelty aspect.
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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 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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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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Inspiration is a word used by people who aren’t really doing anything. I go into my office every day that I’m in Brighton and work. Whether I feel like it or not is irrelevant.
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