The writer who refuses to explore the darker regions of the heart will never be able to write convincingly about the wonder, the magic and the joy of love for just as goodness cannot be trusted unless it has breathed the same air as evil.
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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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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A gentleman never talks about his tailor.
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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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You write a scene, and it works or it doesn’t. It’s immediate.
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I have things that I’m interested in, and I’m not really interested in writing about anything that I’m not interested in. But it’s important to me to be able to see it from a different perspective, and add something new to the whole picture.
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Kylie Minogue is the greatest thing that has happened to Australian music.
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Stars have their moments then they die.
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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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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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If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that.
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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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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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Film seems to be a medium designed for betrayal and violence.
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Sorrow’s child grieves not what has passed, but all the past still yet to come.
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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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