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 CAVEI love being manipulated by what I see. I love weepies and romantic comedies where you’re reaching for the Kleenex at the right moment.
More Nick Cave Quotes
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I suspect the older you get the more invisible you become.
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I have a particular dislike for children’s films. I’m way past the novelty aspect.
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To sustain hatred is a very difficult thing to do, year after year. It’s exhausting.
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Texting is apocalyptic on some level. It’s a reduction of things.
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Stars have their moments then they die.
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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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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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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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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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Writing screenplays makes me a better musician because it clears my head. After writing a movie, I go running back to music as fast as I can.
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Kylie Minogue is the greatest thing that has happened to Australian music.
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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 think there’s a certain numbness in modern society, that accepts certain kinds of violence, but represses other kinds of violence.
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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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No wonder sorrow doesn’t smile much. No wonder sadness is so sad.
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