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I have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don’t like to get my knees dirty. I don’t have a garden.

Nick Cave

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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Real Records World
A gentleman never talks about his tailor.
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Gentleman Southern Gentleman Tailors
Film seems to be a medium designed for betrayal and violence.
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Betrayal Film Violence
Writing screenplays makes me a better musician because it clears my head. After writing a movie, I go running back to music as fast as I can.
NICK CAVE

Musician Running Writing
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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Numbness Thinking Violence
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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Country Ordinary People Sound
Jesus Christ was the biggest blight on the human race, he was. And all them socialists and communists – second rate Christianity.
NICK CAVE

Christianity Communist Jesus
That’s what we [outsiders] feel America is really about – the kind of crazed ravings of the Christian right – when it’s probably something quite different.
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Christian Country Different People
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.
NICK CAVE

Age Country Obvious People Song Writing
No wonder sorrow doesn’t smile much. No wonder sadness is so sad.
NICK CAVE

Sadness Sorrow Wonder
Texting is apocalyptic on some level. It’s a reduction of things.
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Levels Reduction Texting
Moving to the country is a very bold thing to do. You can have vague romantic notions about doing that, but in actuality, it can be a terrifying thing.
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Country Moving Notion Romantic
Your limitations make you the wonderful disaster you most probably are.
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Disaster Limitation Wonderful
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 CAVE

Calendars Office Writing
Anything that I’m doing I’m writing specifically for a particular project.
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Particular Projects Writing
Everyone wants to feel that they matter.
NICK CAVE

Feels Matter Want

I have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don’t like to get my knees dirty. I don’t have a garden.

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