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.
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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I’ve spent my life butting my head against other people’s lack of imagination.
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I have a particular dislike for children’s films. I’m way past the novelty aspect.
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Moving to the country is a very bold thing to do. You can have vague romantic notions about doing that, but in actuality, it can be a terrifying thing.
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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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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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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’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’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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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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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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The society of whores stuck needles in an image of me.
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Texting is apocalyptic on some level. It’s a reduction of things.
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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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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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