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.
NICK CAVEI’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.
More Nick Cave Quotes
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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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I’m a big fan of teatowels and am always on the lookout for a good one.
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A gentleman never talks about his tailor.
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Your limitations make you the wonderful disaster you most probably are.
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Sorrow’s child grieves not what has passed, but all the past still yet to come.
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I am not interested in anything that doesn’t have a genuine heart to it. You’ve got to have soul in the hole. If that isn’t there, I don’t see the point.
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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 see it as my duty in some way is to be out in the world as an Australian putting forward what I consider to be authentic Australian music.
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Kylie Minogue is the greatest thing that has happened to Australian music.
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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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Film seems to be a medium designed for betrayal and violence.
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Texting is apocalyptic on some level. It’s a reduction of things.
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I think there’s a certain numbness in modern society, that accepts certain kinds of violence, but represses other kinds of violence.
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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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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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