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.
NICK CAVEEveryone wants to feel that they matter.
More Nick Cave Quotes
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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 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
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I’m a big fan of teatowels and am always on the lookout for a good one.
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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 think there’s a certain numbness in modern society, that accepts certain kinds of violence, but represses other kinds of violence.
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I suspect the older you get the more invisible you become.
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Your limitations make you the wonderful disaster you most probably are.
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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.
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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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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 write hate lyrics really well. It’s not every day you can use them, really.
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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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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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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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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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