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.
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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I’m very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It’s the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange.
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A gentleman never talks about his tailor.
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The society of whores stuck needles in an image of me.
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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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Sorrow’s child grieves not what has passed, but all the past still yet to come.
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I think there is a certain perversity in my music in that I continue, you know, to eat at the same ball of vomit year after year.
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I’m not in the business of telling people what to do. I’m much more in the business of describing things, situations and stuff like that and leaving them out there, and you can make up your minds about them.
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Guns are part of the American psyche, aren’t they? This is collateral damage for having a Wild West mentality. It’s intrinsic to the American psyche. It’s never going to change.
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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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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’ve always done a lot of research and stuff around the songs that I write so there are pages and pages of writing and you can kind of see these songs emerging.
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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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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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Inspiration is a word used by people who aren’t really doing anything. I go into my office every day that I’m in Brighton and work. Whether I feel like it or not is irrelevant.
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I know when I sit with my band members and we’re playing back a song that we’ve done, I know that they’re experiencing it in a completely different way and hearing stuff that they’re alerted to because the way the interpret the world is through their ears. Mine is through my eyes.
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