You write a scene, and it works or it doesn’t. It’s immediate.
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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I’m a big fan of teatowels and am always on the lookout for a good one.
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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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Kylie Minogue is the greatest thing that has happened to Australian music.
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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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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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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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Your limitations make you the wonderful disaster you most probably are.
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That’s what we [outsiders] feel America is really about – the kind of crazed ravings of the Christian right – when it’s probably something quite different.
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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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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’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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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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And she moves among the sparrows. And she floats upon the breeze. She moves among the flowers. She moves something deep inside of me
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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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The singing tells everybody what to do musically.
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