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To sustain hatred is a very difficult thing to do, year after year. It’s exhausting.

Nick Cave

Kylie Minogue is the greatest thing that has happened to Australian music.
NICK CAVE

Australian Country Day Happened People
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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Elements Song Writing
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 CAVE

Art Changed Rocks Thinking
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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Artistic Labor Process
The writer who refuses to explore the darker regions of the heart will never be able to write convincingly about the wonder, the magic and the joy of love for just as goodness cannot be trusted unless it has breathed the same air as evil.
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Air Heart Writing
The blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body.
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Body Cells Musical
Guns are part of the American psyche, aren’t they? This is collateral damage for having a Wild West mentality. It’s intrinsic to the American psyche. It’s never going to change.
NICK CAVE

Damage Gun West
You write a scene, and it works or it doesn’t. It’s immediate.
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Immediate Scene Writing
Film seems to be a medium designed for betrayal and violence.
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Betrayal Film Violence
The way I take in the world is by seeing it; that is very much evident in the songs that I write.
NICK CAVE

Song World Writing
The singing tells everybody what to do musically.
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Everybody Musically Singing
I’ve always had an obligation to creation, above all.
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Always Creation Obligation
Anything that I’m doing I’m writing specifically for a particular project.
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Particular Projects Writing
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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Christianity Communist Jesus
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.
NICK CAVE

Musician Running Writing
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.
NICK CAVE

Balls Thinking Years

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