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Nick Cave

My records are basically a litany of complaints against the world, and I’m quite like that in real life as well.
NICK CAVE

Real Records World
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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Elements Song Writing
I have a particular dislike for children’s films. I’m way past the novelty aspect.
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Children Past Way
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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Song World Writing
The society of whores stuck needles in an image of me.
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Needles Reality Stuck
Writing is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life.
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Beneficial Levels Writing
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
Anything that I’m doing I’m writing specifically for a particular project.
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Particular Projects Writing
You write a scene, and it works or it doesn’t. It’s immediate.
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Immediate Scene Writing
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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Musician Running Writing
Sorrow’s child grieves not what has passed, but all the past still yet to come.
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Children Grieving Past
I’m a big fan of teatowels and am always on the lookout for a good one.
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Bigs Fans Lookout
I suspect the older you get the more invisible you become.
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Country Invisible People Suspects
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.
NICK CAVE

Anything Inspiration Office People
We are still struggling with people who don’t feel comfortable going into museums. As a visual artist I ask how artists can be part of enacting a change.
NICK CAVE

Artists Museum Struggle
I have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don’t like to get my knees dirty. I don’t have a garden.
NICK CAVE

Dirty Garden Knees

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