I have a particular dislike for children’s films. I’m way past the novelty aspect.
NICK CAVEYour limitations make you the wonderful disaster you most probably are.
More Nick Cave Quotes
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I’m not religious, and I’m not a Christian, but I do reserve the right to believe in the possibility of a god.
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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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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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I’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.
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Writing is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life.
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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 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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Stars have their moments then they die.
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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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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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Guns are part of the American psyche, aren’t they? This is collateral damage for having a Wild West mentality. It’s intrinsic to the American psyche. It’s never going to change.
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The society of whores stuck needles in an image of me.
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I have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don’t like to get my knees dirty. I don’t have a garden.
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Sorrow’s child grieves not what has passed, but all the past still yet to come.
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Texting is apocalyptic on some level. It’s a reduction of things.
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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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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.
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I love rock-n-roll. I think it’s an exciting art form. It’s revolutionary. Still revolutionary and it changed people. It changed their hearts. But yeah, even rock-n-roll has a lot of rubbish, really bad music.
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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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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
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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.
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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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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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And she moves among the sparrows. And she floats upon the breeze. She moves among the flowers. She moves something deep inside of me
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I’ve spent my life butting my head against other people’s lack of imagination.
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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.
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