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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More Nick Cave Quotes
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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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My records are basically a litany of complaints against the world, and I’m quite like that in real life as well.
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A gentleman never talks about his tailor.
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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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Certainly being proficient in an instrument does have its problems. Because the better you get, the more you just start sounding like an ordinary guitarist. There are certainly guitarists that transcend that and do really find their sound and all that sort of stuff.
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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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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’ve spent my life butting my head against other people’s lack of imagination.
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Stars have their moments then they die.
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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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If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that.
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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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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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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.
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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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