The problem with books, now that I’ve written one, is that the idea of adaptation is so much easier than sitting down to write something new.
NICK CAVEA gentleman never talks about his tailor.
More Nick Cave Quotes
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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 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’ve always done a lot of research and stuff around the songs that I write so there are pages and pages of writing and you can kind of see these songs emerging.
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I’ve always had an obligation to creation, above all.
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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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The blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body.
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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 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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I’ve watched ‘Oprah Winfrey.’ And I’m proud. I don’t care what anybody says! I don’t know whether I’ve watched it. I’ve been in the room while it’s been on.
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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.
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I have a particular dislike for children’s films. I’m way past the novelty aspect.
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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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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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Sorrow’s child grieves not what has passed, but all the past still yet to come.
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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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