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.
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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I’ve watched ‘Oprah Winfrey.’ And I’m proud. I don’t care what anybody says! I don’t know whether I’ve watched it. I’ve been in the room while it’s been on.
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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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Film seems to be a medium designed for betrayal and violence.
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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 band is a living, breathing thing. It grows in the same way we do as human beings and if it doesn’t, it dies. It’s important to feed the organism, and one way of doing that is to set musical challenges that keep it alive.
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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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My records are basically a litany of complaints against the world, and I’m quite like that in real life as well.
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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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Everyone wants to feel that they matter.
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Anything that I’m doing I’m writing specifically for a particular project.
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I’m very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It’s the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange.
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I have a particular dislike for children’s films. I’m way past the novelty aspect.
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I’m an Australian, and when I grew up much of my influences were American – blues music and country music, all that sort of thing.
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I see it as my duty in some way is to be out in the world as an Australian putting forward what I consider to be authentic Australian music.
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I’ve always had an obligation to creation, above all.
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