The artistic process seems to be mythologized quite a lot into something far greater than it actually is. It is just hard labor.
NICK CAVEI 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.
More Nick Cave Quotes
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The problem with books, now that I’ve written one, is that the idea of adaptation is so much easier than sitting down to write something new.
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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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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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The writer who refuses to explore the darker regions of the heart will never be able to write convincingly about the wonder, the magic and the joy of love for just as goodness cannot be trusted unless it has breathed the same air as evil.
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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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The blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body.
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I have things that I’m interested in, and I’m not really interested in writing about anything that I’m not interested in. But it’s important to me to be able to see it from a different perspective, and add something new to the whole picture.
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Everyone wants to feel that they matter.
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Inspiration is a word used by people who aren’t really doing anything. I go into my office every day that I’m in Brighton and work. Whether I feel like it or not is irrelevant.
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I’ve always done a lot of research and stuff around the songs that I write so there are pages and pages of writing and you can kind of see these songs emerging.
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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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I have a particular dislike for children’s films. I’m way past the novelty aspect.
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If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that.
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In the hysterical technocracy of modern music, sorrow is sent to the back of the class where it sits, pissing its pants in mortal terror.
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You write a scene, and it works or it doesn’t. It’s immediate.
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