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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

When I’m singing “Deanna,” for example, which I sing pretty much every night, it brings forward a kind of imagined, romanticized lie about this particular person, which I find really comforting and exciting to sing about.
NICK CAVE

Comforting Lying Night
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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Different Eye Song
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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Safe Sorrow Tears
No wonder sorrow doesn’t smile much. No wonder sadness is so sad.
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Sadness Sorrow Wonder
It’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.
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Adventure Element Important
Jesus Christ was the biggest blight on the human race, he was. And all them socialists and communists – second rate Christianity.
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Christianity Communist Jesus
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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Country Moving Notion Romantic
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.
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Anything Inspiration Office People
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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Breathing Challenges Musical
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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Business People Risky Trying
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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Important Perspective Writing
I write hate lyrics really well. It’s not every day you can use them, really.
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Hate Use 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
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
In the hysterical technocracy of modern music, sorrow is sent to the back of the class where it sits, pissing its pants in mortal terror.
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Class Pants Sorrow
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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Balls Thinking Years

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