Film seems to be a medium designed for betrayal and violence.
NICK CAVENo wonder sorrow doesn’t smile much. No wonder sadness is so sad.
More Nick Cave Quotes
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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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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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And I kissed away a thousand tears My lady of the Various Sorrows Some begged, some borrowed, some stolen Some kept safe for tomorrow.
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I think there’s a certain numbness in modern society, that accepts certain kinds of violence, but represses other kinds of violence.
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Texting is apocalyptic on some level. It’s a reduction of things.
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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 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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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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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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My records are basically a litany of complaints against the world, and I’m quite like that in real life as well.
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I’ve spent my life butting my head against other people’s lack of imagination.
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I suspect the older you get the more invisible you become.
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I’ve always had an obligation to creation, above all.
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I don’t really care who collects my work, black, white, red, yellow. You have to also be consciously aware of, what does this mean in your home? And how are you supporting this work and the message behind the work?
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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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