I suspect the older you get the more invisible you become.
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 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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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 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.
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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 spent my life butting my head against other people’s lack of imagination.
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I’ve always had an obligation to creation, above all.
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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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And she moves among the sparrows. And she floats upon the breeze. She moves among the flowers. She moves something deep inside of me
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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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You write a scene, and it works or it doesn’t. It’s immediate.
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Anything that I’m doing I’m writing specifically for a particular project.
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Film seems to be a medium designed for betrayal and violence.
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Sorrow’s child grieves not what has passed, but all the past still yet to come.
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The blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body.
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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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