The singing tells everybody what to do musically.
NICK CAVEKylie Minogue is the greatest thing that has happened to Australian music.
More Nick Cave Quotes
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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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Jesus Christ was the biggest blight on the human race, he was. And all them socialists and communists – second rate Christianity.
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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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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’ve watched ‘Oprah Winfrey.’ And I’m proud. I don’t care what anybody says! I don’t know whether I’ve watched it. I’ve been in the room while it’s been on.
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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’m a big fan of teatowels and am always on the lookout for a good one.
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I write hate lyrics really well. It’s not every day you can use them, really.
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Anything that I’m doing I’m writing specifically for a particular project.
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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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Moving to the country is a very bold thing to do. You can have vague romantic notions about doing that, but in actuality, it can be a terrifying thing.
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I have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don’t like to get my knees dirty. I don’t have a garden.
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To sustain hatred is a very difficult thing to do, year after year. It’s exhausting.
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No wonder sorrow doesn’t smile much. No wonder sadness is so sad.
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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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