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.
NICK CAVEAnd she moves among the sparrows. And she floats upon the breeze. She moves among the flowers. She moves something deep inside of me
More Nick Cave Quotes
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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 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 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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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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Your limitations make you the wonderful disaster you most probably are.
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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 suspect the older you get the more invisible you become.
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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.
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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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I have a particular dislike for children’s films. I’m way past the novelty aspect.
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I’ve always had an obligation to creation, above all.
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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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Anything that I’m doing I’m writing specifically for a particular project.
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I’ve spent my life butting my head against other people’s lack of imagination.
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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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