Writing is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life.
NICK CAVEThe problem with books, now that I’ve written one, is that the idea of adaptation is so much easier than sitting down to write something new.
More Nick Cave Quotes
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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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The blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body.
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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 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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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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Stars have their moments then they die.
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It’s always a risky business inviting somebody on stage. You never know what they’re going to do. I try to avoid letting people join me onstage because it can be very distracting, and overly theatrical.
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Film seems to be a medium designed for betrayal and violence.
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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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I have a particular dislike for children’s films. I’m way past the novelty aspect.
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I’ve always done a lot of research and stuff around the songs that I write so there are pages and pages of writing and you can kind of see these songs emerging.
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Texting is apocalyptic on some level. It’s a reduction of things.
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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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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’ve spent my life butting my head against other people’s lack of imagination.
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