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.
NICK CAVEI look at you and you look at me and deep in our hearts know it That you weren’t much of a muse, but then I weren’t much of a poet
More Nick Cave Quotes
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Kylie Minogue is the greatest thing that has happened to Australian music.
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I’ve always had an obligation to creation, above all.
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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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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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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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Moving to the country is a very bold thing to do. You can have vague romantic notions about doing that, but in actuality, it can be a terrifying thing.
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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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A gentleman never talks about his tailor.
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The writer who refuses to explore the darker regions of the heart will never be able to write convincingly about the wonder, the magic and the joy of love for just as goodness cannot be trusted unless it has breathed the same air as evil.
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Film seems to be a medium designed for betrayal and violence.
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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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Anything that I’m doing I’m writing specifically for a particular project.
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And I kissed away a thousand tears My lady of the Various Sorrows Some begged, some borrowed, some stolen Some kept safe for tomorrow.
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I have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don’t like to get my knees dirty. I don’t have a garden.
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I’ve spent my life butting my head against other people’s lack of imagination.
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