You write a scene, and it works or it doesn’t. It’s immediate.
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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I think there’s a certain numbness in modern society, that accepts certain kinds of violence, but represses other kinds of violence.
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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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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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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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To sustain hatred is a very difficult thing to do, year after year. It’s exhausting.
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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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I write hate lyrics really well. It’s not every day you can use them, really.
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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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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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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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We as visual artists need to continue to be renegades and say, “Yes I am here to do a project, but what is the social service?”
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Texting is apocalyptic on some level. It’s a reduction of things.
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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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Kylie Minogue is the greatest thing that has happened to Australian music.
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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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