To sustain hatred is a very difficult thing to do, year after year. It’s exhausting.
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 write hate lyrics really well. It’s not every day you can use them, really.
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Texting is apocalyptic on some level. It’s a reduction of things.
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I love being manipulated by what I see. I love weepies and romantic comedies where you’re reaching for the Kleenex at the right moment.
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Everyone wants to feel that they matter.
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Sorrow’s child grieves not what has passed, but all the past still yet to come.
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It’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.
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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 suspect the older you get the more invisible you become.
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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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I’ve spent my life butting my head against other people’s lack of imagination.
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No wonder sorrow doesn’t smile much. No wonder sadness is so sad.
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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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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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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’m not in the business of telling people what to do. I’m much more in the business of describing things, situations and stuff like that and leaving them out there, and you can make up your minds about them.
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