It’s always a risky business inviting somebody on stage. You never know what they’re going to do. I try to avoid letting people join me onstage because it can be very distracting, and overly theatrical.
NICK CAVEThe 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.
More Nick Cave Quotes
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Anything that I’m doing I’m writing specifically for a particular project.
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Everyone wants to feel that they matter.
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And I kissed away a thousand tears My lady of the Various Sorrows Some begged, some borrowed, some stolen Some kept safe for tomorrow.
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The society of whores stuck needles in an image of me.
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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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Sorrow’s child grieves not what has passed, but all the past still yet to come.
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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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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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I love being manipulated by what I see. I love weepies and romantic comedies where you’re reaching for the Kleenex at the right moment.
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I’ve always had an obligation to creation, above all.
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Texting is apocalyptic on some level. It’s a reduction of things.
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Film seems to be a medium designed for betrayal and violence.
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I write hate lyrics really well. It’s not every day you can use them, really.
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The songs that I like are the ones that you can’t visualize, that are just cries from the heart – those very straight, direct songs that make rock & roll music so wonderful.
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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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