I'm not in the business of telling people what to do. I'm much more in the business of describing things, situations and stuff like that and leaving them out there, and you can make up your minds about them.

Nick Cave

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Sorrow's child grieves not what has passed, but all the past stil... by Nick Cave

Sorrow's child grieves not what has passed, but all the past still yet to come.

grieving children past

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.

creating air sound

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.

pulse reading use

Well, as anyone who actually writes knows, if you sit down and are prepared, then the ideas come. There's a lot of different ways people explain that, but, you know, I find that if I sit down and I prepare myself, generally things get done.

writing people ideas

The songs that I like are the ones that you can't visualize, that are just cries from the heart - those very straight, direct songs that make rock & roll music so wonderful.

rocks heart song

I am the captain of my pain. by Nick Cave

I am the captain of my pain.

captains pain philosophy

If you got a trumpet, get on your feet, brother, and blow it! by Nick Cave

If you got a trumpet, get on your feet, brother, and blow it!

brother blow feet

And I kissed away a thousand tears My lady of the Various Sorrows Some begged, some borrowed, some stolen Some kept safe for tomorrow.

tears sorrow safe

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.

color light moving

You searched through all my poets, From Sappho through to Auden, I saw the book fall from your hands, As you slowly died of boredom.

book hands fall

My biggest fear is losing memory because memory is what we are. Your very soul and your very reason to be alive is tied up in memory.

alive soul memories

I've spent my life butting my head against other people's lack of... by Nick Cave

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

imagination people

The older I get, the more I feel those kinds of ghosts - especially the women in my life - moving out of the shadows a bit more and becoming more present in my life.

becoming shadow moving

The society of whores stuck needles in an image of me. by Nick Cave

The society of whores stuck needles in an image of me.

needles stuck reality

It's very important that the music has a sense of adventure to it, and that it's done by the seat of your pants. There's a kind of nervy element about it.

elements important adventure

If you're Australian, you feel it in your bones because you're at odds with everybody else, except other Australians, in the sense that people always seem to be behaving strangely. People always seem to be behaving the wrong way, in a different way. You say things and there are silences.

silence odds people

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.

heart song attention

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

hey wife kids

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.

rocks art thinking

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.

good-man hate people