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.
NICK CAVETexting is apocalyptic on some level. It’s a reduction of things.
More Nick Cave Quotes
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I suspect the older you get the more invisible you become.
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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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It’s very important that the music has a sense of adventure to it, and that it’s done by the seat of your pants. There’s a kind of nervy element about it.
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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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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 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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The society of whores stuck needles in an image of me.
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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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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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Texting is apocalyptic on some level. It’s a reduction of things.
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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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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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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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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’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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