I’ve spent my life butting my head against other people’s lack of imagination.
NICK CAVEI’m an Australian, and when I grew up much of my influences were American – blues music and country music, all that sort of thing.
More Nick Cave Quotes
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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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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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Kylie Minogue is the greatest thing that has happened to Australian music.
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Jesus Christ was the biggest blight on the human race, he was. And all them socialists and communists – second rate Christianity.
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I write hate lyrics really well. It’s not every day you can use them, really.
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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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You write a scene, and it works or it doesn’t. It’s immediate.
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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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Stars have their moments then they die.
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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 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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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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No wonder sorrow doesn’t smile much. No wonder sadness is so sad.
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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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Certainly being proficient in an instrument does have its problems. Because the better you get, the more you just start sounding like an ordinary guitarist. There are certainly guitarists that transcend that and do really find their sound and all that sort of stuff.
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