The way I go about writing records is that I make a calendar date to start the new record, so I have nothing. I don’t have a bunch of notes that I bring into the office, I start with nothing at all.
NICK CAVESorrow’s child grieves not what has passed, but all the past still yet to come.
More Nick Cave Quotes
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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 society of whores stuck needles in an image of me.
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The problem with books, now that I’ve written one, is that the idea of adaptation is so much easier than sitting down to write something new.
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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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The body becomes the carrier for the work. It’s not really about the physical body; it really becomes the apparatus that carries and moves the work. I don’t really consider the body as much; I look at it as a tool.
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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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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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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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Anything that I’m doing I’m writing specifically for a particular project.
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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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If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that.
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The songs that I like are the ones that you can’t visualize, that are just cries from the heart – those very straight, direct songs that make rock & roll music so wonderful.
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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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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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When I’m singing “Deanna,” for example, which I sing pretty much every night, it brings forward a kind of imagined, romanticized lie about this particular person, which I find really comforting and exciting to sing about.
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