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.
NICK CAVEI think there’s a certain numbness in modern society, that accepts certain kinds of violence, but represses other kinds of violence.
More Nick Cave Quotes
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I suspect the older you get the more invisible you become.
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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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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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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 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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I write hate lyrics really well. It’s not every day you can use them, really.
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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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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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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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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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If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that.
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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 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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You write a scene, and it works or it doesn’t. It’s immediate.
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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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