I have a particular dislike for children’s films. I’m way past the novelty aspect.
NICK CAVEI’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.
More Nick Cave Quotes
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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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The band is a living, breathing thing. It grows in the same way we do as human beings and if it doesn’t, it dies. It’s important to feed the organism, and one way of doing that is to set musical challenges that keep it alive.
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I don’t really care who collects my work, black, white, red, yellow. You have to also be consciously aware of, what does this mean in your home? And how are you supporting this work and the message behind the work?
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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 look at you and you look at me and deep in our hearts know it That you weren’t much of a muse, but then I weren’t much of a poet
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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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The society of whores stuck needles in an image of me.
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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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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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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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Anything that I’m doing I’m writing specifically for a particular project.
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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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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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And she moves among the sparrows. And she floats upon the breeze. She moves among the flowers. She moves something deep inside of me
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To sustain hatred is a very difficult thing to do, year after year. It’s exhausting.
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