I suspect the older you get the more invisible you become.
NICK CAVEYou write a scene, and it works or it doesn’t. It’s immediate.
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 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 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 a particular dislike for children’s films. I’m way past the novelty aspect.
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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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No wonder sorrow doesn’t smile much. No wonder sadness is so sad.
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The artistic process seems to be mythologized quite a lot into something far greater than it actually is. It is just hard labor.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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Writing screenplays makes me a better musician because it clears my head. After writing a movie, I go running back to music as fast as I can.
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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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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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