Nick Cave Quotes (132 quotes)

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„With writing a song, I've always felt, right from the start, like I'm scraping the bottom of the barrel. I don't ever feel there's a font of ideas to fall back on.“
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„The idea of acting is something that absolutely repulses me. I just can't do it. I'm terrible at it. I get roped into films every now and then, and it's always a disaster.“
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„Self-editing is the way I write. Ten verses of a song and it's finished. Then we start playing it and if I see that it's too long, I'll start cutting.“
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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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„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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„The band is a living, breathing thing. It grows in the same way we do as human beings and if it doesn't, it dies. It's important to feed the organism, and one way of doing that is to set musical challenges that keep it alive.“
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„I've watched 'Oprah Winfrey.' And I'm proud. I don't care what anybody says! I don't know whether I've watched it. I've been in the room while it's been on.“
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„I know when I sit with my band members and we're playing back a song that we've done, I know that they're experiencing it in a completely different way and hearing stuff that they're alerted to because the way the interpret the world is through their ears. Mine is through my eyes.“
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„I get criticized for a lot of what I write about, but as far as I'm concerned I'm actually standing up and having a look at what goes on in the minds of men, and I have the authority to talk about it because I'm a man.“
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„The last thing I ever wanted to get involved with is Hollywood. The way it works is that people get an idea you could possibly do something, but there's a one-in-a-hundred chance that it could get made.“
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„You can't trust an artist that just makes good records.“
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„When you're talking about rock n' roll, myth-making is what it's all about.“
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„When I perform onstage, I'm actually kind of nearsighted, so I don't have any real, true understanding of what the audience is like.“
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„What you're really after when you see a film or listen to a song is a singular vision, and I'm not sure how much of that you really get in Hollywood.“
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„The problem with books, now that I've written one, is that the idea of adaptation is so much easier than sitting down to write something new.“
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„Songwriting, I have to take myself away from everybody to do. It's an unsightly act.“
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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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„My records are basically a litany of complaints against the world, and I'm quite like that in real life as well.“
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„My father was a teacher and my mother also worked in the school, so the family has a background in education.“
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„Most screen violence is tedious.“
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Nick Cave
Author born: September 22, 1957
Nationality: Australian
Author Profession: Musician

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