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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 Cave

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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Song World Writing
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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Country Duty People Way World
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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Safe Sorrow Tears
The body becomes the carrier for the work. It’s not really about the physical body; it really becomes the apparatus that carries and moves the work. I don’t really consider the body as much; I look at it as a tool.
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Apparatus Looks Moving Tools
Your limitations make you the wonderful disaster you most probably are.
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Disaster Limitation Wonderful
I’ve watched ‘Oprah Winfrey.’ And I’m proud. I don’t care what anybody says! I don’t know whether I’ve watched it. I’ve been in the room while it’s been on.
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Care Proud Room
The society of whores stuck needles in an image of me.
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Needles Reality Stuck
My records are basically a litany of complaints against the world, and I’m quite like that in real life as well.
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Real Records World
The artistic process seems to be mythologized quite a lot into something far greater than it actually is. It is just hard labor.
NICK CAVE

Artistic Labor Process
Moving to the country is a very bold thing to do. You can have vague romantic notions about doing that, but in actuality, it can be a terrifying thing.
NICK CAVE

Country Moving Notion Romantic
Writing is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life.
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Beneficial Levels Writing
It’s very important that the music has a sense of adventure to it, and that it’s done by the seat of your pants. There’s a kind of nervy element about it.
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Adventure Element Important
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.
NICK CAVE

Artists Museum Struggle
Film seems to be a medium designed for betrayal and violence.
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Betrayal Film Violence
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.
NICK CAVE

Different Eye Song
Sorrow’s child grieves not what has passed, but all the past still yet to come.
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Children Grieving Past

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.

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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.

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