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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.

Nick Cave

If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that.
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Autumn Hard Work Years
Everyone wants to feel that they matter.
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Feels Matter Want
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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Artistic Labor Process
The society of whores stuck needles in an image of me.
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Needles Reality Stuck
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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Country Duty People Way World
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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Hey Kids Wife
I’ve always had an obligation to creation, above all.
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Always Creation Obligation
I think there is a certain perversity in my music in that I continue, you know, to eat at the same ball of vomit year after year.
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Balls Thinking Years
I write hate lyrics really well. It’s not every day you can use them, really.
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Hate Use Writing
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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Flower Moving Sparrow
My records are basically a litany of complaints against the world, and I’m quite like that in real life as well.
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Real Records World
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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Artist Needs Social
I’m not religious, and I’m not a Christian, but I do reserve the right to believe in the possibility of a god.
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Believe Christian Religious
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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Numbness Thinking Violence
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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Damage Gun West
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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Important Perspective Writing

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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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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