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What Nick Cave thinks about motivation

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Australian songwriter and writer, frontman of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Since 2018 he has answered readers' questions in public at The Red Hand Files, where most of what he has said about how songs are made now lives.

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2 dated positions, 2021 to 2023, in their own words. Our reading of what Nick Cave has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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  1. Our readingThe struggle of making something is not an obstacle in front of the work; it is where the meaning comes from.

    Their wordsIt is our striving that becomes the very essence of meaning.

    ↗I work in the music industry and there is a lot of excitement around ChatGPT... what's wrong with making things faster and easier?theredhandfiles.com 2nd of 2 in this piece

  2. 2 years earlier

  3. Our readingMaking art is a job you turn up to whether or not you feel inspired, and the work only arrives for people who are already at the desk.

    Their wordsI also have an affinity with artists who treat their craft as a job and are not dependent on the vagaries of inspiration — because I am one of them. Like most people with a job, we just go to work.

    ↗Do you think it is more important to find inspiration or to get to work and write?theredhandfiles.com 1st of 2 in this piece