I’ve always had an obligation to creation, above all.
NICK CAVENo wonder sorrow doesn’t smile much. No wonder sadness is so sad.
More Nick Cave Quotes
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It’s always a risky business inviting somebody on stage. You never know what they’re going to do. I try to avoid letting people join me onstage because it can be very distracting, and overly theatrical.
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I have a particular dislike for children’s films. I’m way past the novelty aspect.
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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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I suspect the older you get the more invisible you become.
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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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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’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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I’m a big fan of teatowels and am always on the lookout for a good one.
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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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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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The blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body.
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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 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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I love being manipulated by what I see. I love weepies and romantic comedies where you’re reaching for the Kleenex at the right moment.
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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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