The blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body.
NICK CAVEWriting is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life.
More Nick Cave Quotes
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You write a scene, and it works or it doesn’t. It’s immediate.
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I’ve always had an obligation to creation, above 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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I have a particular dislike for children’s films. I’m way past the novelty aspect.
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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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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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Everyone wants to feel that they matter.
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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 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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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’m very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It’s the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange.
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When I’m singing “Deanna,” for example, which I sing pretty much every night, it brings forward a kind of imagined, romanticized lie about this particular person, which I find really comforting and exciting to sing about.
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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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Sorrow’s child grieves not what has passed, but all the past still yet to come.
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I 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.
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