Nick Cave Quotes
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The love song must be born into the realm of the irrational, absurd, the distracted, the melancholic, the obsessive, the insane for the love song is the noise of love itself and love is, of course, a form of madness.
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Kylie Minogue is the greatest thing that has happened to Australian music.
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If you got a trumpet, get on your feet, brother, and blow it!
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I always thought my records were number one; it's just the charts didn't think so.
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Everyone wants to feel that they matter.
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Sorrow's child grieves not what has passed, but all the past still yet to come.
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I'm an Australian, and when I grew up much of my influences were American - blues music and country music, all that sort of thing.
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I just found this world a hard place to be good in,’ says Bunny, then he closes his eyes and, with an expiration of breath, goes still.
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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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Cynicism and defensiveness are two things constantly levelled at me. Look, I've got time for people, I'm good mannered. I usually find that when you're down, nobody has a bloody minute for you. If I was a nobody, you wouldn't even talk to me. People, in general, don't like you being upfront and civil. They hate you for it. They label you a cynic 'cos you're reasonable.
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I just want to leave this world with a massive catalog of songs.
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No fish can swim until the King is born, until the King is born in Tupelo.
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The actualising of God through the medium of the love song remains my prime motivation as an artist.
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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 consider myself to be first and foremost a comic writer. The way I entertain myself - especially in those long and grim hours in the office - is to write stuff I find funny.
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Songwriting, I have to take myself away from everybody to do. It's an unsightly act.
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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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Some people, myself in particular, have an adversarial relationship with the camera, and it sprouts up in every photograph.
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I don't believe in an interventionist God...
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Songs need to have the ability to change and to grow for sure. They take on lives of their own. Some songs just don't have that capacity. They're locked within a period of time. And as soon as you take them out of that period of time, they die very quickly.
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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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Most screen violence is tedious.
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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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I've always been at war with the guitar. All vocalists are fighting a war with the electric rhythm guitar.