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Nick Cave

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.

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Nick Cave is saying that rock-n-roll is a powerful and transformative type of music that continues to have a strong impact on people's emotions and lives. However, he also acknowledges that within the genre, there is a significant amount of low-quality or bad music.

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