A gentleman never talks about his tailor.
NICK CAVENo wonder sorrow doesn’t smile much. No wonder sadness is so sad.
More Nick Cave Quotes
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The blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body.
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Sorrow’s child grieves not what has passed, but all the past still yet to come.
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To sustain hatred is a very difficult thing to do, year after year. It’s exhausting.
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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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Kylie Minogue is the greatest thing that has happened to Australian music.
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And she moves among the sparrows. And she floats upon the breeze. She moves among the flowers. She moves something deep inside of me
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In the hysterical technocracy of modern music, sorrow is sent to the back of the class where it sits, pissing its pants in mortal terror.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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The society of whores stuck needles in an image of me.
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