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.
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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I know when I sit with my band members and we’re playing back a song that we’ve done, I know that they’re experiencing it in a completely different way and hearing stuff that they’re alerted to because the way the interpret the world is through their ears. Mine is through my eyes.
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Kylie Minogue is the greatest thing that has happened to Australian music.
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I have a particular dislike for children’s films. I’m way past the novelty aspect.
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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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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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The way I take in the world is by seeing it; that is very much evident in the songs that I write.
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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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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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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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A gentleman never talks about his tailor.
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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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If I’m hanging around too much, my wife and kids say, ‘Hey, why don’t you go downstairs and start a new novel?’
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The society of whores stuck needles in an image of me.
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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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I’ve spent my life butting my head against other people’s lack of imagination.
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