And I kissed away a thousand tears My lady of the Various Sorrows Some begged, some borrowed, some stolen Some kept safe for tomorrow.
NICK CAVEI’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.
More Nick Cave Quotes
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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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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.
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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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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 a big fan of teatowels and am always on the lookout for a good one.
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A gentleman never talks about his tailor.
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Kylie Minogue is the greatest thing that has happened to Australian music.
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I write hate lyrics really well. It’s not every day you can use them, really.
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Stars have their moments then they die.
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I’ve always had an obligation to creation, above all.
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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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I love rock-n-roll. I think it’s an exciting art form. It’s revolutionary. Still revolutionary and it changed people. It changed their hearts. But yeah, even rock-n-roll has a lot of rubbish, really bad music.
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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 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 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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