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The blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body.

Nick Cave

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.
NICK CAVE

Balls Thinking Years
The artistic process seems to be mythologized quite a lot into something far greater than it actually is. It is just hard labor.
NICK CAVE

Artistic Labor Process
Writing screenplays makes me a better musician because it clears my head. After writing a movie, I go running back to music as fast as I can.
NICK CAVE

Musician Running Writing
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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Hey Kids Wife
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.
NICK CAVE

Country Grew Influence
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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Breathing Challenges Musical
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.
NICK CAVE

Heart Holes Soul
Stars have their moments then they die.
NICK CAVE

Dies Moments Stars
The singing tells everybody what to do musically.
NICK CAVE

Everybody Musically Singing
Writing is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life.
NICK CAVE

Beneficial Levels Writing
If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that.
NICK CAVE

Autumn Hard Work Years
I love rock-n-roll. I think it’s an exciting art form. It’s revolutionary. Still revolutionary and it changed people. It changed their hearts. But yeah, even rock-n-roll has a lot of rubbish, really bad music.
NICK CAVE

Art Changed Rocks Thinking
I suspect the older you get the more invisible you become.
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Country Invisible People Suspects
I’m not in the business of telling people what to do. I’m much more in the business of describing things, situations and stuff like that and leaving them out there, and you can make up your minds about them.
NICK CAVE

Leaving Mind People
Everyone wants to feel that they matter.
NICK CAVE

Feels Matter Want
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.
NICK CAVE

Comedy Moments Reaching

The blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body.

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