I don’t really care who collects my work, black, white, red, yellow. You have to also be consciously aware of, what does this mean in your home? And how are you supporting this work and the message behind the work?
NICK CAVETo sustain hatred is a very difficult thing to do, year after year. It’s exhausting.
More Nick Cave Quotes
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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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I’m unable to really write the kind of song that doesn’t have a visual element, which most songs don’t.
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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 way I take in the world is by seeing it; that is very much evident in the songs that I write.
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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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I’m an Australian, and when I grew up much of my influences were American – blues music and country music, all that sort of thing.
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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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I look at you and you look at me and deep in our hearts know it That you weren’t much of a muse, but then I weren’t much of a poet
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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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Texting is apocalyptic on some level. It’s a reduction of things.
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It’s very important that the music has a sense of adventure to it, and that it’s done by the seat of your pants. There’s a kind of nervy element about it.
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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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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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If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that.
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