Film seems to be a medium designed for betrayal and violence.
NICK CAVEI 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
More Nick Cave Quotes
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I think there is a certain perversity in my music in that I continue, you know, to eat at the same ball of vomit year after year.
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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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Writing is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life.
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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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No wonder sorrow doesn’t smile much. No wonder sadness is so sad.
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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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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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And she moves among the sparrows. And she floats upon the breeze. She moves among the flowers. She moves something deep inside of me
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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’ve spent my life butting my head against other people’s lack of imagination.
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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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Writing screenplays makes me a better musician because it clears my head. After writing a movie, I go running back to music as fast as I can.
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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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Sorrow’s child grieves not what has passed, but all the past still yet to come.
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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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