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.
NICK CAVEWhen 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.
More Nick Cave Quotes
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I am not interested in anything that doesn’t have a genuine heart to it. You’ve got to have soul in the hole. If that isn’t there, I don’t see the point.
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No wonder sorrow doesn’t smile much. No wonder sadness is so sad.
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Your limitations make you the wonderful disaster you most probably are.
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To sustain hatred is a very difficult thing to do, year after year. It’s exhausting.
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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 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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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.
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Film seems to be a medium designed for betrayal and violence.
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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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Moving to the country is a very bold thing to do. You can have vague romantic notions about doing that, but in actuality, it can be a terrifying thing.
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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’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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If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that.
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I see it as my duty in some way is to be out in the world as an Australian putting forward what I consider to be authentic Australian music.
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I’ve always had an obligation to creation, above all.
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