Nick Cave Quotes - Page 3

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• One thing that I'm really interested in is the kind of esoteric detail that surrounds these great figures. And Wikipedia is full of that kind of stuff, whether it's true or untrue. It staggers me: why, in the short space assigned to a person or an event, that kind of random information is there. To be honest, that's wonderful fuel for songwriting.

  Nick Cave

  Space, Wikipedia, Events

  "Nick Cave on the Evolution of His Music". Interview with Simon Abrams, www.esquire.com. January 28, 2014.

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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.

  Nick Cave

  Reading, Pulse, Use

  "Nick Cave’s Object Permanence" by Alexandria Symonds, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 19, 2014.

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• You write a scene, and it works or it doesn't. It's immediate.

  Nick Cave

  Writing, Scene

  "Nick Cave: 'Lawless is not so much a true story as a true myth'". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2012.

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• I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.

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  Creation, Obligation

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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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  Writing, Men, Mind

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• The more information you have, the more human our heroes become and consequently the less mysterious and godlike. They need to be godlike.

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  Hero, Needs, Information

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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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  Thinking, Numbness, Violence

  "Blissed Out: The Raptures of Rock". Book by Simon Reynolds, 1988.

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• And I wish that I was made of stone So that I would not have to see A beauty impossible to define A beauty impossible to believe A beauty impossible to endure The blood imparted in little sips The smell of you still on my hands As I bring the cup up to my lips No God up in the sky No devil beneath the sea Could do the job that you did, baby Of bringing me to my knees

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  Baby, Jobs, Believe

  Song: Brompton Oratory

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• You can't trust an artist that just makes good records.

  Nick Cave

  Artist, Records, Good Records

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• I was about 12 years old and I was sitting watching the television and it was some kind of talent show, you know, and on marches this monkey, this ape, in a pair of red-checked trousers with a little matching jacket holding a ukelele and it started jigging around playing it, and it was looking straight into the camera, straight at me, and I remember thinking, that's it, that'll be me, you know, that'll be me.

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  Thinking, Years, Cameras

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• Brother, be a brother, fill this tiny cup of mine. And please, sir, make it whiskey: I have no head for wine!

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  Brother, Wine, Tiny

  "Song: 'Brother, My Cup Is Empty'". 1992.

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• There's that kind of song, "Whoah baby, I love you," which doesn't have a visual element, but a very strong emotional element, and these are the great songs to me - those ones that you put them on and they just make you feel great, or whatever.

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  Song, Baby, Strong

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• And she moves among the sparrows. And she floats upon the breeze. She moves among the flowers. She moves something deep inside of me

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  Flower, Moving, Sparrows

  Song: Nature Boy

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• Despite what people might think, I'm not interested in being dark all the time. I'm actually searching for some kind of light, and I'm always very happy when I can achieve that.

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  Dark, Thinking, Light

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• I think it's an essential fact for any performer or artist to fail as poignantly as they can succeed.

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  Artist, Thinking, Essentials

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• I don't like those songs where you have to listen to a story to get into them. I don't want to have to pay attention to music in that way, I just want it to hit me in the heart and do what music's supposed to do.

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  Song, Heart, Attention

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• The rock star is dying. And it's a small tragedy. Rock stars have blogs now. I have no use for that kind of rock star.

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  Stars, Rocks, Tragedy

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• Everybody tends to overplay live. That's just the nature of playing live. And that can be great, but it can also kill something that's special, and intimate, about a recorded version of a song. You find out very quickly which songs you can play, and which songs you do damage to by playing them live.

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  Song, Play, Special

  "Nick Cave on the Evolution of His Music". Interview with Simon Abrams, www.esquire.com. January 28, 2014.

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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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  Waste, Wasting Time, Great Freedom

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• Sound doesn't always have to be heard. Sound can also be created by how a pattern is set up on a surface- how it moves across the surface, how light reflects the surface [and] can generate a feeling. Sound can also be through feeling, through color, through texture.

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  Moving, Light, Color

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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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  Hate, People, Good Man

  Source: thequietus.com

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• There are methods to creating a mayhem that sounds different from your usual mayhem. Because mayhem and a heavy drum backbeat end up sounding like Green Day or something. But if you put a different beat within it to create some air and lightness, the chaos comes through better.

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  Air, Creating, Sound

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• Said 2,000 years of Christian history, baby And you ain't learned to love me yet?

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  Christian, Baby, Years

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• I am the captain of my pain.

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  Pain, Philosophy, Captains

  Song: Brother, My Cup is Empty

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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.

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  Comedy, Moments, Reaching

  "Outback outlaws". Interview with Dorian Lynskey, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2006.

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