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?”
NICK CAVEI’m an Australian, and when I grew up much of my influences were American – blues music and country music, all that sort of thing.
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 have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don’t like to get my knees dirty. I don’t have a garden.
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Film seems to be a medium designed for betrayal and violence.
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The way I go about writing records is that I make a calendar date to start the new record, so I have nothing. I don’t have a bunch of notes that I bring into the office, I start with nothing at all.
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I have a particular dislike for children’s films. I’m way past the novelty aspect.
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Anything that I’m doing I’m writing specifically for a particular project.
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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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To sustain hatred is a very difficult thing to do, year after year. It’s exhausting.
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A gentleman never talks about his tailor.
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Stars have their moments then they die.
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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’m a big fan of teatowels and am always on the lookout for a good one.
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It’s always a risky business inviting somebody on stage. You never know what they’re going to do. I try to avoid letting people join me onstage because it can be very distracting, and overly theatrical.
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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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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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