Jesus Christ was the biggest blight on the human race, he was. And all them socialists and communists – second rate Christianity.
NICK CAVEThe problem with books, now that I’ve written one, is that the idea of adaptation is so much easier than sitting down to write something new.
More Nick Cave Quotes
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The singing tells everybody what to do musically.
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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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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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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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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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Certainly being proficient in an instrument does have its problems. Because the better you get, the more you just start sounding like an ordinary guitarist. There are certainly guitarists that transcend that and do really find their sound and all that sort of stuff.
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No wonder sorrow doesn’t smile much. No wonder sadness is so sad.
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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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I’ve always had an obligation to creation, above all.
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The writer who refuses to explore the darker regions of the heart will never be able to write convincingly about the wonder, the magic and the joy of love for just as goodness cannot be trusted unless it has breathed the same air as evil.
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Sorrow’s child grieves not what has passed, but all the past still yet to come.
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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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The body becomes the carrier for the work. It’s not really about the physical body; it really becomes the apparatus that carries and moves the work. I don’t really consider the body as much; I look at it as a tool.
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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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The blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body.
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