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.
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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I write hate lyrics really well. It’s not every day you can use them, really.
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Everyone wants to feel that they matter.
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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 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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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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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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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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A gentleman never talks about his tailor.
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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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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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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’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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Sorrow’s child grieves not what has passed, but all the past still yet to come.
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The society of whores stuck needles in an image of me.
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