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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.

Nick Cave

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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Country Grew Influence
Your limitations make you the wonderful disaster you most probably are.
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Disaster Limitation Wonderful
It’s always a risky business inviting somebody on stage. You never know what they’re going to do. I try to avoid letting people join me onstage because it can be very distracting, and overly theatrical.
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Business People Risky Trying
To sustain hatred is a very difficult thing to do, year after year. It’s exhausting.
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Difficult Hatred Years
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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Comforting Lying Night
I am not interested in anything that doesn’t have a genuine heart to it. You’ve got to have soul in the hole. If that isn’t there, I don’t see the point.
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Heart Holes Soul
I think there is a certain perversity in my music in that I continue, you know, to eat at the same ball of vomit year after year.
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Balls Thinking Years
Everyone wants to feel that they matter.
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Feels Matter Want
Texting is apocalyptic on some level. It’s a reduction of things.
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Levels Reduction Texting
I’m a big fan of teatowels and am always on the lookout for a good one.
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Bigs Fans Lookout
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
Writing is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life.
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Beneficial Levels Writing
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.
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Leaving Mind People
I’ve always had an obligation to creation, above all.
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Always Creation Obligation
The artistic process seems to be mythologized quite a lot into something far greater than it actually is. It is just hard labor.
NICK CAVE

Artistic Labor Process
The singing tells everybody what to do musically.
NICK CAVE

Everybody Musically Singing

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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