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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.

Nick Cave

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
Stars have their moments then they die.
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Dies Moments Stars
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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Elements Song Writing
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
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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Art Beautiful Inspire
The singing tells everybody what to do musically.
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Everybody Musically Singing
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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Calendars Office Writing
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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Comedy Moments Reaching
Film seems to be a medium designed for betrayal and violence.
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Betrayal Film Violence
I love rock-n-roll. I think it’s an exciting art form. It’s revolutionary. Still revolutionary and it changed people. It changed their hearts. But yeah, even rock-n-roll has a lot of rubbish, really bad music.
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Art Changed Rocks Thinking
I’ve spent my life butting my head against other people’s lack of imagination.
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Butting Imagination People
Sorrow’s child grieves not what has passed, but all the past still yet to come.
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Children Grieving Past
Anything that I’m doing I’m writing specifically for a particular project.
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Particular Projects Writing
Kylie Minogue is the greatest thing that has happened to Australian music.
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Australian Country Day Happened People
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.
NICK CAVE

Heart Holes Soul
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.
NICK CAVE

Country Ordinary People Sound

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