Film seems to be a medium designed for betrayal and violence.
NICK CAVECertainly 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.
More Nick Cave Quotes
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I’ve always had an obligation to creation, above all.
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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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Kylie Minogue is the greatest thing that has happened to Australian music.
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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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I’ve spent my life butting my head against other people’s lack of imagination.
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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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Writing is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life.
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You write a scene, and it works or it doesn’t. It’s immediate.
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The songs that I like are the ones that you can’t visualize, that are just cries from the heart – those very straight, direct songs that make rock & roll music so wonderful.
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I write songs in batches and then record them and then can’t write again for ages. I try and build one song upon another, they may not obviously look inter-related but often one song acts as a springboard into another.
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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 suspect the older you get the more invisible you become.
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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.
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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.
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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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