I’m unable to really write the kind of song that doesn’t have a visual element, which most songs don’t.
NICK CAVEI 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.
More Nick Cave Quotes
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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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If I’m hanging around too much, my wife and kids say, ‘Hey, why don’t you go downstairs and start a new novel?’
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Stars have their moments then they die.
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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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Your limitations make you the wonderful disaster you most probably are.
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The blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body.
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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.
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I have a particular dislike for children’s films. I’m way past the novelty aspect.
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Writing screenplays makes me a better musician because it clears my head. After writing a movie, I go running back to music as fast as I can.
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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’ve always done a lot of research and stuff around the songs that I write so there are pages and pages of writing and you can kind of see these songs emerging.
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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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Anything that I’m doing I’m writing specifically for a particular project.
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Film seems to be a medium designed for betrayal and violence.
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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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