Nick Cave Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)
Nick Cave quotes and sayings page 4 (67 year old musician). Here's quote # 31 through 40 out of the 132 we have for him.
“I was reading The Bible a lot through my 20s, mostly the Old Testament, just because I was knocked out by the language and the stories. I felt that the God being talked about there, who was this insane, vindictive patriarch - it was kind of thrilling, and titillated something in me at the time.”
“I'm not saying this in a condescending kind of way, but it's quite simple: The making of America was a heroic thing. Australia has a much murkier, much more complex view of its history. It's just full of all these open wounds we don't really know what to do with.”
“I suspect the older you get the more invisible you become.”
“A rock musician's career is short-lived. To extend it, you need to do other things to keep yourself fresh.”
“I have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don't like to get my knees dirty. I don't have a garden.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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?”
“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.”
“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.”
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