My records are basically a litany of complaints against the world, and I’m quite like that in real life as well.
NICK CAVEI’m a big fan of teatowels and am always on the lookout for a good one.
More Nick Cave Quotes
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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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The band is a living, breathing thing. It grows in the same way we do as human beings and if it doesn’t, it dies. It’s important to feed the organism, and one way of doing that is to set musical challenges that keep it alive.
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I’m not in the business of telling people what to do. I’m much more in the business of describing things, situations and stuff like that and leaving them out there, and you can make up your minds about them.
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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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I 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.
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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 am not interested in anything that doesn’t have a genuine heart to it. You’ve got to have soul in the hole. If that isn’t there, I don’t see the point.
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A gentleman never talks about his tailor.
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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’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 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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I see it as my duty in some way is to be out in the world as an Australian putting forward what I consider to be authentic Australian music.
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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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No wonder sorrow doesn’t smile much. No wonder sadness is so sad.
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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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