The way I take in the world is by seeing it; that is very much evident in the songs that I write.
NICK CAVEIf I’m hanging around too much, my wife and kids say, ‘Hey, why don’t you go downstairs and start a new novel?’
More Nick Cave Quotes
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I write hate lyrics really well. It’s not every day you can use them, really.
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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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Kylie Minogue is the greatest thing that has happened to Australian music.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Sorrow’s child grieves not what has passed, but all the past still yet to come.
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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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Texting is apocalyptic on some level. It’s a reduction of things.
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The singing tells everybody what to do musically.
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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.
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You write a scene, and it works or it doesn’t. It’s immediate.
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