I love being manipulated by what I see. I love weepies and romantic comedies where you’re reaching for the Kleenex at the right moment.
NICK CAVEI suspect the older you get the more invisible you become.
More Nick Cave Quotes
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To sustain hatred is a very difficult thing to do, year after year. It’s exhausting.
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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 suspect the older you get the more invisible you become.
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Everyone wants to feel that they matter.
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Anything that I’m doing I’m writing specifically for a particular project.
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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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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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If I’m hanging around too much, my wife and kids say, ‘Hey, why don’t you go downstairs and start a new novel?’
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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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The singing tells everybody what to do musically.
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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 body becomes the carrier for the work. It’s not really about the physical body; it really becomes the apparatus that carries and moves the work. I don’t really consider the body as much; I look at it as a tool.
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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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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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The way I go about writing records is that I make a calendar date to start the new record, so I have nothing. I don’t have a bunch of notes that I bring into the office, I start with nothing at all.
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