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.
NICK CAVEJesus Christ was the biggest blight on the human race, he was. And all them socialists and communists – second rate Christianity.
More Nick Cave Quotes
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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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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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I have a particular dislike for children’s films. I’m way past the novelty aspect.
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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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The way I go about writing records is that I make a calendar date to start the new record, so I have nothing. I don’t have a bunch of notes that I bring into the office, I start with nothing at all.
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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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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’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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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.
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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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Writing is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life.
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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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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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Sorrow’s child grieves not what has passed, but all the past still yet to come.
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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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