I’ve always had an obligation to creation, above all.
NICK CAVEThe way I take in the world is by seeing it; that is very much evident in the songs that I write.
More Nick Cave Quotes
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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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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.
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Certainly being proficient in an instrument does have its problems. Because the better you get, the more you just start sounding like an ordinary guitarist. There are certainly guitarists that transcend that and do really find their sound and all that sort of stuff.
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I write songs in batches and then record them and then can’t write again for ages. I try and build one song upon another, they may not obviously look inter-related but often one song acts as a springboard into another.
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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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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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To sustain hatred is a very difficult thing to do, year after year. It’s exhausting.
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Your limitations make you the wonderful disaster you most probably are.
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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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Everyone wants to feel that they matter.
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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 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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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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It’s always a risky business inviting somebody on stage. You never know what they’re going to do. I try to avoid letting people join me onstage because it can be very distracting, and overly theatrical.
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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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