If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that.
NICK CAVEThe blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body.
More Nick Cave Quotes
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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 singing tells everybody what to do musically.
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Film seems to be a medium designed for betrayal and violence.
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We as visual artists need to continue to be renegades and say, “Yes I am here to do a project, but what is the social service?”
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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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A gentleman never talks about his tailor.
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I’ve always had an obligation to creation, above all.
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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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Your limitations make you the wonderful disaster you most probably are.
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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.
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Kylie Minogue is the greatest thing that has happened to Australian music.
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I’m unable to really write the kind of song that doesn’t have a visual element, which most songs don’t.
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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 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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The blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body.
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