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.
NICK CAVECertainly 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.
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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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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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 know when I sit with my band members and we’re playing back a song that we’ve done, I know that they’re experiencing it in a completely different way and hearing stuff that they’re alerted to because the way the interpret the world is through their ears. Mine is through my eyes.
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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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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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Writing is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life.
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Anything that I’m doing I’m writing specifically for a particular project.
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Film seems to be a medium designed for betrayal and violence.
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Texting is apocalyptic on some level. It’s a reduction of things.
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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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No wonder sorrow doesn’t smile much. No wonder sadness is so sad.
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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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In the hysterical technocracy of modern music, sorrow is sent to the back of the class where it sits, pissing its pants in mortal terror.
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