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"65 Nick Cave Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 22 September 1957 | Musician | Author | screenwriter | Composer | Actor |
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I've always felt like an imposter, in the whole, as a musician.
Always Felt Like Musician
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I always thought my records were number one; it's just the charts didn't think so.

Always Charts Just Number
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Kylie Minogue is the greatest thing that has happened to Australian music.

Australian Greatest GreatestThing Happened
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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.

Also Background Education Family
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I don't really do Japanese interviews. I don't think there's much call for me in Japan.

Call Interviews Japan Japanese
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When you're on your own, you have all the self-censorship that everybody has when they try and write. All the little voices that say, 'No, you can't write that, what will they think of that?'

Everybody Little Own Say
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It's always a pleasure on a personal note for me to come back to Australia.
Always Australia Back Come
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The only person who can say they're happy getting old is someone who isn't actually old yet. Every day, I get less and less happy about that idea.

About Actually Day Every
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Most screen violence is tedious.

Most Screen Tedious Violence
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Writing is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life.

Beneficial Effects Just Keep
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Songwriting, I have to take myself away from everybody to do. It's an unsightly act.
Act Away Everybody Myself
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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.

Am Anything Genuine Got
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Guns are part of the American psyche, aren't they? This is collateral damage for having a Wild West mentality. It's intrinsic to the American psyche. It's never going to change.

American Change Collateral Damage
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I won't go into the details, but I ready myself for the day. I am a high-maintenance type of guy.

Am Day Details ForTheDay
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Most people wait for the muse to turn up. That's terribly unreliable. I have to sit down and pursue the muse by attempting to work.

Attempting Down Most Muse
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If I'm hanging around too much, my wife and kids say, 'Hey, why don't you go downstairs and start a new novel?'

Around Downstairs Go Hanging
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People are always surprised to see clues to my being a normal kind of guy. As if I'm somehow letting the team down.

Always Being Clues Down
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Songs you can dip in and out of, but a book... well, it can overpower you.

Book Dip Out Songs
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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.

Cutting Finished ISee IWrite
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If you took love out of the equation, I wouldn't know what else to write about.
About Else Equation Know
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I don't feel I'm thrown around by the winds of taste and fashion.

Around Fashion Feel Taste
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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.

Comic Consider Entertain Find
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I don't write happy songs. Who does? I don't know anybody who writes happy songs, really.

Anybody Does Happy Know
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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.

Balm Beauty Intended Kind
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A rock musician's career is short-lived. To extend it, you need to do other things to keep yourself fresh.

Career Extend Fresh Keep
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Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There's immense happiness that can come from working towards that.

Best Come Did Ever
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People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.
Asked Because Bloody Get
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An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany.

Always Artist Artistic Duty
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I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange.

Always Art Beautiful Compliment
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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.

About Any Belief Believe
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At some point you start seeing the difference between what you really want, and what is your priority order. I feel that today I know what I want. That's the problem with perspective, as well as focus and concentration.

Between Concentration Difference Feel
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I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.
Above Always Creation Had
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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.

Art ArtForm Bad Changed
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I've spent my life butting my head against other people's lack of imagination.

Against Head Imagination Lack
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To my undying shame, I do read reviews. I don't read them all, but I like to get some kind of idea how things are going.
Get Going How Idea
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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?

Anymore Artistic Communal Corporate
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If beautiful movies can influence you to go out and hug your children, then we have to be honest and say that other movies can inspire you to do bad things.

Bad BadThings Beautiful Children
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I write a lot, and very often I write a couple of lines that are particularly revealing in some kind of way. And then as a few more lines get added and a piece gets added, eventually the song pretty much takes over and you can't really find a way to change those things.

Added Change Couple Eventually
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Writing screenplays makes me a better musician because it clears my head. After writing a movie, I go running back to music as fast as I can.

After Back Because Better
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I've always been at war with the guitar. All vocalists are fighting a war with the electric rhythm guitar.

Always Been Electric Fighting
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I'm hugely self-critical in the morning.

Hugely Morning Self-Critical
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L.A. is full of screenwriters. I don't know why. On many levels, it's such a thankless occupation.

Full Know Levels Many
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It's possible to get through life without a religious structure, but I don't think that's a very fruitful way to live.

Fruitful Get Life Live
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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.

Believe Book Certain CertainThings
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One of my big fears is drying up, and the more I create, the more I feel myself shrinking beneath the backlog of work I've done.

Beneath Big Create Done
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People often can't separate, or can't understand, that to be funny is to be serious; it's a way of pulling people in and not scaring them off. I think a lot of the funny stuff, underneath it, there's a deep anxiety going on.

Anxiety Deep Funny FunnyStuff
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I just want to leave this world with a massive catalog of songs.

Catalog Just Leave Massive
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Inspiration' is a word used by people who aren't really doing anything.
Anything Doing Inspiration People
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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.

Always Back Barrel Bottom
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