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I suspect the older you get the more invisible you become.

Nick Cave

The way I take in the world is by seeing it; that is very much evident in the songs that I write.
NICK CAVE

Song World Writing
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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Calendars Office Writing
I’m an Australian, and when I grew up much of my influences were American – blues music and country music, all that sort of thing.
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Country Grew Influence
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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Country Duty People Way World
I’m a big fan of teatowels and am always on the lookout for a good one.
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Bigs Fans Lookout
Sorrow’s child grieves not what has passed, but all the past still yet to come.
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Children Grieving Past
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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Artists Museum Struggle
I suspect the older you get the more invisible you become.
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Country Invisible People Suspects
Stars have their moments then they die.
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Dies Moments Stars
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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Age Country Obvious People Song Writing
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
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
The singing tells everybody what to do musically.
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Everybody Musically Singing
You write a scene, and it works or it doesn’t. It’s immediate.
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Immediate Scene Writing
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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Real Records World
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

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