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.
NICK CAVEI’m unable to really write the kind of song that doesn’t have a visual element, which most songs don’t.
More Nick Cave Quotes
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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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I’ve spent my life butting my head against other people’s lack of imagination.
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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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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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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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Jesus Christ was the biggest blight on the human race, he was. And all them socialists and communists – second rate Christianity.
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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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I write hate lyrics really well. It’s not every day you can use them, really.
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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.
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To sustain hatred is a very difficult thing to do, year after year. It’s exhausting.
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You write a scene, and it works or it doesn’t. It’s immediate.
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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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Your limitations make you the wonderful disaster you most probably are.
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