I have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don’t like to get my knees dirty. I don’t have a garden.
NICK CAVEIn the hysterical technocracy of modern music, sorrow is sent to the back of the class where it sits, pissing its pants in mortal terror.
More Nick Cave Quotes
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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’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’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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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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To sustain hatred is a very difficult thing to do, year after year. It’s exhausting.
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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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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.
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I’m a big fan of teatowels and am always on the lookout for a good one.
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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 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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Kylie Minogue is the greatest thing that has happened to Australian music.
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The singing tells everybody what to do musically.
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The body becomes the carrier for the work. It’s not really about the physical body; it really becomes the apparatus that carries and moves the work. I don’t really consider the body as much; I look at it as a tool.
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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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If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that.
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