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 CAVEI 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.
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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If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that.
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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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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 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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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 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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You write a scene, and it works or it doesn’t. It’s immediate.
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I am not interested in anything that doesn’t have a genuine heart to it. You’ve got to have soul in the hole. If that isn’t there, I don’t see the point.
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Stars have their moments then they die.
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Texting is apocalyptic on some level. It’s a reduction of things.
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A gentleman never talks about his tailor.
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When I’m singing “Deanna,” for example, which I sing pretty much every night, it brings forward a kind of imagined, romanticized lie about this particular person, which I find really comforting and exciting to sing about.
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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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I have things that I’m interested in, and I’m not really interested in writing about anything that I’m not interested in. But it’s important to me to be able to see it from a different perspective, and add something new to the whole picture.
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