I write songs in batches and then record them and then can’t write again for ages. I try and build one song upon another, they may not obviously look inter-related but often one song acts as a springboard into another.
NICK CAVEI suspect the older you get the more invisible you become.
More Nick Cave Quotes
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I’ve always had an obligation to creation, above all.
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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.
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Everyone wants to feel that they matter.
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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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I’m not religious, and I’m not a Christian, but I do reserve the right to believe in the possibility of a god.
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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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I’m an Australian, and when I grew up much of my influences were American – blues music and country music, all that sort of thing.
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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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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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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’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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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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When I’m singing “Deanna,” for example, which I sing pretty much every night, it brings forward a kind of imagined, romanticized lie about this particular person, which I find really comforting and exciting to sing about.
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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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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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