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.
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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If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that.
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I write songs in batches and then record them and then can’t write again for ages. I try and build one song upon another, they may not obviously look inter-related but often one song acts as a springboard into another.
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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.
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The artistic process seems to be mythologized quite a lot into something far greater than it actually is. It is just hard labor.
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Sorrow’s child grieves not what has passed, but all the past still yet to come.
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I have things that I’m interested in, and I’m not really interested in writing about anything that I’m not interested in. But it’s important to me to be able to see it from a different perspective, and add something new to the whole picture.
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To sustain hatred is a very difficult thing to do, year after year. It’s exhausting.
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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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Everyone wants to feel that they matter.
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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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Kylie Minogue is the greatest thing that has happened to Australian music.
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A gentleman never talks about his tailor.
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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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I’m not religious, and I’m not a Christian, but I do reserve the right to believe in the possibility of a god.
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We are still struggling with people who don’t feel comfortable going into museums. As a visual artist I ask how artists can be part of enacting a change.
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