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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.

Nick Cave

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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Flower Moving Sparrow
If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that.
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Autumn Hard Work Years
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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Country Ordinary People Sound
The society of whores stuck needles in an image of me.
NICK CAVE

Needles Reality Stuck
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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Home Mean Yellow
The blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body.
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Body Cells Musical
In the hysterical technocracy of modern music, sorrow is sent to the back of the class where it sits, pissing its pants in mortal terror.
NICK CAVE

Class Pants Sorrow
We are still struggling with people who don’t feel comfortable going into museums. As a visual artist I ask how artists can be part of enacting a change.
NICK CAVE

Artists Museum Struggle
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.
NICK CAVE

Art Beautiful Inspire
Stars have their moments then they die.
NICK CAVE

Dies Moments Stars
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.
NICK CAVE

Comforting Lying Night
Texting is apocalyptic on some level. It’s a reduction of things.
NICK CAVE

Levels Reduction Texting
Writing is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life.
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Beneficial Levels Writing
Film seems to be a medium designed for betrayal and violence.
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Betrayal Film Violence
The artistic process seems to be mythologized quite a lot into something far greater than it actually is. It is just hard labor.
NICK CAVE

Artistic Labor Process
To sustain hatred is a very difficult thing to do, year after year. It’s exhausting.
NICK CAVE

Difficult Hatred Years

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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