You write a scene, and it works or it doesn’t. It’s immediate.
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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If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that.
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Anything that I’m doing I’m writing specifically for a particular project.
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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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Stars have their moments then they die.
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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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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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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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I am not interested in anything that doesn’t have a genuine heart to it. You’ve got to have soul in the hole. If that isn’t there, I don’t see the point.
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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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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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When I’m singing “Deanna,” for example, which I sing pretty much every night, it brings forward a kind of imagined, romanticized lie about this particular person, which I find really comforting and exciting to sing about.
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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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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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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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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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