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 CAVEMy 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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I suspect the older you get the more invisible you become.
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The singing tells everybody what to do musically.
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I write hate lyrics really well. It’s not every day you can use them, really.
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Kylie Minogue is the greatest thing that has happened to Australian music.
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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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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.
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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.
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Film seems to be a medium designed for betrayal and violence.
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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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I’m a big fan of teatowels and am always on the lookout for a good one.
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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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Stars have their moments then they die.
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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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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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