Jesus Christ was the biggest blight on the human race, he was. And all them socialists and communists – second rate Christianity.
NICK CAVEIt’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.
More Nick Cave Quotes
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Film seems to be a medium designed for betrayal and violence.
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We as visual artists need to continue to be renegades and say, “Yes I am here to do a project, but what is the social service?”
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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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Everyone wants to feel that they matter.
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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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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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If I’m hanging around too much, my wife and kids say, ‘Hey, why don’t you go downstairs and start a new novel?’
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I don’t really care who collects my work, black, white, red, yellow. You have to also be consciously aware of, what does this mean in your home? And how are you supporting this work and the message behind the work?
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You write a scene, and it works or it doesn’t. It’s immediate.
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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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I have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don’t like to get my knees dirty. I don’t have a garden.
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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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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 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 had an obligation to creation, above all.
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