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.
NICK CAVEIt’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.
More Nick Cave Quotes
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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 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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Stars have their moments then they die.
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No wonder sorrow doesn’t smile much. No wonder sadness is so sad.
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You write a scene, and it works or it doesn’t. It’s immediate.
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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 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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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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Texting is apocalyptic on some level. It’s a reduction of things.
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I’m not in the business of telling people what to do. I’m much more in the business of describing things, situations and stuff like that and leaving them out there, and you can make up your minds about them.
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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’m a big fan of teatowels and am always on the lookout for a good one.
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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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Sorrow’s child grieves not what has passed, but all the past still yet to come.
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The body becomes the carrier for the work. It’s not really about the physical body; it really becomes the apparatus that carries and moves the work. I don’t really consider the body as much; I look at it as a tool.
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