Nick Cave Quotes
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The blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body.
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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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Hamlet got a gun now.
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It's very intuitive, the way that I approach my work. I only buy something that has a pulse. I may not know how I'm going to use it, but I know it has a pulse and it has multiple readings - if I shift it one way or another, it can be read this way or it can be read that way, but both readings are critical and very much ground the work.
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I don't write happy songs. Who does? I don't know anybody who writes happy songs, really.
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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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Film seems to be a medium designed for betrayal and violence.
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Being a parent can make you a horrible person at times, because you're pushed to the limit constantly.
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After a while, you just don't do things you don't wanna do - that's the great freedom you get, the older you get. You learn what to do and what not to do, and what will be a waste of time and what won't be a waste of time.
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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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I'm a big fan of teatowels and am always on the lookout for a good one.
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I don't believe in an interventionist God...
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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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Oh, a passing, skeptical kind of interest. I'm a hammer-and-nails kind of guy.
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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 don't particularly believe all love is doomed. But I guess, one is usually kinda suffering from some aborted love affair or association, rather than being at the peak of one. I think it's fairly obvious that a lot more suffering goes on in the name of love than the little happiness you can squeeze out of it.
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I became a script writer with absolutely no idea of how to write a script whatsoever. I still feel a bit of an outsider in that regard. If I can maintain that approach to screenwriting, it can continue to be enjoyable.
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The more settled I've become, the more problematic my characters have become. There was a period when I wrote sensitive and gentle songs and these came at a time when life was at its most destructive. I think you write about what you need, on some level.
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It was about the preciousness of that, and how they viewed those birds as art, as something valuable. I didn't care one way or another back then, but now, thinking about my grandparents - who are still alive but getting older - I see the birds as sort of time capsules. Now I go home during the holidays and they hold a lot of weight in terms of nostalgia and memory. Now they mean everything.
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I have to be able to pull you in. How can I diversify my audiences? What role do I have to play to be part of that shift? I have to take that seriously.
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...be mindful of the prayers you send pray hard but pray with care for the tears you are crying now are just your answered prayers letters of light we scale merrily, move mysteriously around so that when you think you're climbing up, man, in fact you're climbing down...
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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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There's always pain around. That's one thing you can guarantee in life - there will always be a surplus of pain.
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My responsibility as an artist is to turn up at the page or the piano or the microphone. The rest is up to God.