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.
NICK CAVEI 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.
More Nick Cave Quotes
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Texting is apocalyptic on some level. It’s a reduction of things.
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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 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 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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Everyone wants to feel that they matter.
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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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Sorrow’s child grieves not what has passed, but all the past still yet to come.
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Kylie Minogue is the greatest thing that has happened to Australian music.
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I’ve spent my life butting my head against other people’s lack of imagination.
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I’m unable to really write the kind of song that doesn’t have a visual element, which most songs don’t.
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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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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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Film seems to be a medium designed for betrayal and violence.
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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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I love rock-n-roll. I think it’s an exciting art form. It’s revolutionary. Still revolutionary and it changed people. It changed their hearts. But yeah, even rock-n-roll has a lot of rubbish, really bad music.
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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 society of whores stuck needles in an image of me.
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I see it as my duty in some way is to be out in the world as an Australian putting forward what I consider to be authentic Australian music.
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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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Your limitations make you the wonderful disaster you most probably are.
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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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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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You write a scene, and it works or it doesn’t. It’s immediate.
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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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A gentleman never talks about his tailor.
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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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