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.
NICK CAVEThe blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body.
More Nick Cave Quotes
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Texting is apocalyptic on some level. It’s a reduction of things.
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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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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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Kylie Minogue is the greatest thing that has happened to Australian music.
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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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Stars have their moments then they die.
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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’ve always had an obligation to creation, above all.
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I’ve spent my life butting my head against other people’s lack of imagination.
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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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Anything that I’m doing I’m writing specifically for a particular project.
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No wonder sorrow doesn’t smile much. No wonder sadness is so sad.
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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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When I’m singing “Deanna,” for example, which I sing pretty much every night, it brings forward a kind of imagined, romanticized lie about this particular person, which I find really comforting and exciting to sing about.
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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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