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.
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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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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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’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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Anything that I’m doing I’m writing specifically for a particular project.
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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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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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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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The singing tells everybody what to do musically.
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Film seems to be a medium designed for betrayal and violence.
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I’ve watched ‘Oprah Winfrey.’ And I’m proud. I don’t care what anybody says! I don’t know whether I’ve watched it. I’ve been in the room while it’s been on.
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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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Writing is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life.
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I’ve always had an obligation to creation, above all.
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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’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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