black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

I’m unable to really write the kind of song that doesn’t have a visual element, which most songs don’t.

Nick Cave

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.
NICK CAVE

Apparatus Looks Moving Tools
A gentleman never talks about his tailor.
NICK CAVE

Gentleman Southern Gentleman Tailors
I’m not religious, and I’m not a Christian, but I do reserve the right to believe in the possibility of a god.
NICK CAVE

Believe Christian Religious
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 CAVE

Art Beautiful Inspire
In the hysterical technocracy of modern music, sorrow is sent to the back of the class where it sits, pissing its pants in mortal terror.
NICK CAVE

Class Pants Sorrow
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.
NICK CAVE

Adventure Element Important
It’s always a risky business inviting somebody on stage. You never know what they’re going to do. I try to avoid letting people join me onstage because it can be very distracting, and overly theatrical.
NICK CAVE

Business People Risky Trying
I look at you and you look at me and deep in our hearts know it That you weren’t much of a muse, but then I weren’t much of a poet
NICK CAVE

Heart Looks Muse Poet
Anything that I’m doing I’m writing specifically for a particular project.
NICK CAVE

Particular Projects Writing
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.
NICK CAVE

Breathing Challenges Musical
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.
NICK CAVE

Calendars Office Writing
The singing tells everybody what to do musically.
NICK CAVE

Everybody Musically Singing
I’ve spent my life butting my head against other people’s lack of imagination.
NICK CAVE

Butting Imagination People
I have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don’t like to get my knees dirty. I don’t have a garden.
NICK CAVE

Dirty Garden Knees
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.
NICK CAVE

Christian Country Different People
You write a scene, and it works or it doesn’t. It’s immediate.
NICK CAVE

Immediate Scene Writing

I’m unable to really write the kind of song that doesn’t have a visual element, which most songs don’t.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

I’m unable to really write the kind of song that doesn’t have a visual element, which most songs don’t.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Nick Cave Quotes