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Nick Cave
Nick Cave
Australian Musician
Born: Sep 22, 1957
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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. Nick Cave
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Personally I find the story of Christ incredibly moving. Nick Cave
Christ Incredibly Find Story Moving Personally
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. Nick Cave
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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. Nick Cave
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When you're making a film, there are so many people involved that you get opinions and notes from people and you don't even know who they are. I find that quite difficult and it wears you down. Nick Cave
You People Down Difficult Find Wears Know Involved Opinions Making Get Quite So Many People Notes Who Many Even Film
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. Nick Cave
Care Says Know Proud Been Oprah Oprah Winfrey dont Care Anybody Whether While Room Watched
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. Nick Cave
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I'm a kind of hard-wired pessimist. I can't help but see the world in a certain kind of way. Nick Cave
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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. Nick Cave
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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. Nick Cave
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I'm kind of old-school and love nothing more than sitting, opening a book, and reading it. But I also love listening to audio books. Nick Cave
Love Book Listening Reading Nothing Books Kind More Opening Also Audio Than Sitting
I've always worn suits. To me they're a very practical kind of thing to wear. You put one on and don't really have to think about what you're going to wear. Nick Cave
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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. Nick Cave
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When you're talking about rock n' roll, myth-making is what it's all about. Nick Cave
You About Talking Rock Rock-N-Roll Roll
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. Nick Cave
Eyes Song World Band Sit Back Ears Mine Way Members Through Stuff Know Because Hearing Band Members Done Different Experiencing Different Way Interpret Playing
What I'm resistant to is the 'Walk the Line' biopic, where you have this redemptive life done in two hours. It just doesn't wash with me. I've been there and things don't work out that way. Nick Cave
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No, I wouldn't direct a movie, no. I couldn't. I don't have the patience for it, I don't have the people skills. You have to be clever. I'm not really clever in that kind of way. And you have to be able to manipulate people, but at the same time allow them to feel like they are manipulating you, to get the kind of movie that you want. Nick Cave
Time You Patience People Clever Way Kind Able Direct Allow Feel Like Get Same Same Time Want Movie Manipulate Manipulating Them Really Skills
I don't know, maybe Australian humour isn't supposed to be funny. It's as dry as the Sahara, and I think people miss that. Nick Cave
Funny People Think Humour Miss Supposed Know Dry Sahara Australian Maybe
To me, I don't write when I'm depressed. If I'm depressed, which is actually rare, I'm not doing anything, you know, and I'm not able to do anything. Nick Cave
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Film seems to be a medium designed for betrayal and violence. Nick Cave
Medium Betrayal Seems Film Designed Violence
I'm an Australian, and when I grew up much of my influences were American - blues music and country music, all that sort of thing. Nick Cave
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Being a parent can make you a horrible person at times, because you're pushed to the limit constantly. Nick Cave
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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. Nick Cave
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You write a scene, and it works or it doesn't. It's immediate. Nick Cave
You Immediate Scene Write Works
I would hate to think my songs were giving advice to people. Nick Cave
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Some people, myself in particular, have an adversarial relationship with the camera, and it sprouts up in every photograph. Nick Cave
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