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There's an element to songwriting that I can't explain, that comes from somewhere else. I can't explain that dividing line between nothing and something that happens within a song, where you have absolutely nothing, and then suddenly you have something. It's like the origin of the universe. (Nick Cave)
Certainly being proficient in an instrument does have its problems. Because the better you get, the more you just start sounding like an ordinary guitarist. There are certainly guitarists that transcend that and do really find their sound and all that sort of stuff. View quote
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I suspect the older you get the more invisible you become. View quote
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I used to believe that if I could do certain things - write a book or be a successful musician - that I'd be transformed into a happy person, but it doesn't work that way. View quote
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I don't think Hollywood makes many good films anymore. How many directors can you really trust to have an artistic vision, not a corporate vision or a watered-down communal one? View quote
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At school I was an anti-magnet for women. View quote
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The idea of songwriting is a transformative thing, and what I do with songwriting is take situations that are quite ordinary and transform them in some way. Apart from things like the murder ballads, the songs I write, at their core, are quite ordinary human concerns, but the process of writing about them transforms them into something else. View quote
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I write hate lyrics really well. It's not every day you can use them, really. View quote
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Some people, myself in particular, have an adversarial relationship with the camera, and it sprouts up in every photograph. View quote
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Most of the time, feelings just seem to get in the way. They're a luxury for the idle, a bourgeois concept. Feelings are overrated. View quote
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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. (Nick Cave)
In getting older, I find myself becoming progressively more ineffectual in a lot of different ways, and part of that is down to no longer having the youthful feeling that what you're doing has any true impact. View quote
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I'm a big fan of teatowels and am always on the lookout for a good one. View quote
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My music has to do with beauty, and it's intended to, if not lift the spirits, then be a kind of a balm to the spirits. View quote
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I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief. View quote
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I'm not in the business of telling people what to do. I'm much more in the business of describing things, situations and stuff like that and leaving them out there, and you can make up your minds about them. View quote
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You can't trust an artist that just makes good records. View quote
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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. View quote
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If you're Australian, you feel it in your bones because you're at odds with everybody else, except other Australians, in the sense that people always seem to be behaving strangely. People always seem to be behaving the wrong way, in a different way. You say things and there are silences. View quote
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I love being manipulated by what I see. I love weepies and romantic comedies where you're reaching for the Kleenex at the right moment. View quote
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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. (Nick Cave)
I'm a kind of hard-wired pessimist. I can't help but see the world in a certain kind of way. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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The work ethic at art school is completely different than the work ethic amongst people who get into music. People who paint, it's an honorable thing to spend all day and all night in front of your canvas - that is the romantic vision of the painter. View quote
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Photo: Yves Lorson, CC BY 2.0
Occupation: Australian Musician
Born: September 22, 1957
Quotes count: 197
Wikipedia: Nick Cave

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