My music has to do with beauty, and it's intended to, if not lift the spirits, then be a kind of a… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
I don't write happy songs. Who does? I don't know anybody who writes happy songs, really. — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
The blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body. — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
Kylie Minogue is the greatest thing that has happened to Australian music. — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
“Out of sorrow entire worlds have been built Out of longing great wonders have been willed” — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
A rock musician's career is short-lived. To extend it, you need to do other things to keep yourself fresh. — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
The band is a living, breathing thing. It grows in the same way we do as human beings and if it doesn't,… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
I think there is a certain perversity in my music in that I continue, you know, to eat at the same ball… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
The songs that I like are the ones that you can't visualize, that are just cries from the heart - those very… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
Writing screenplays makes me a better musician because it clears my head. After writing a movie, I go running back to music… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
I want to write songs that are so sad, the kind of sad where you take someone's little finger and break it… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
I have a very strange relationship in general with women around my music. There's some that understand it and some that think… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
“I’m forever near a stereo saying, ‘What the fuck is this garbage?’ And the answer is always the Red Hot Chili Peppers.” — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
In the hysterical technocracy of modern music, sorrow is sent to the back of the class where it sits, pissing its pants… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
Songs need to have the ability to change and to grow for sure. They take on lives of their own. Some songs… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
Music is storming, driving, relentless, devotional, slinky, subtle, heartbreakingly-beautiful sounds that, lyrically, switch from the cynical to the sanguine, the defeated to… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
I lost my innocence with Johnny Cash. I used to watch the 'Johnny Cash Show' on television in Wangaratta when I was… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
You're collaborating with people you don't even know, when you're making a film. You're collaborating with people you've never seen. So, the… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
I write a lot, and very often I write a couple of lines that are particularly revealing in some kind of way.… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
When I start writing songs, and they come easily, I'm always very suspicious. That usually means they're reminding me of something I've… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
Love songs come in many guises and are seemingly written for many reasons – as declarations or to wound – I have… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
The work ethic at art school is completely different than the work ethic amongst people who get into music. People who paint,… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
“The boy will grow older, and over time there will be other songs – not many – ten or maybe twenty in… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
I see it as my duty in some way is to be out in the world as an Australian putting forward what… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
The secret to longevity in the music business is to change, and to be able to change. [...] An actor has to… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
It's very important that the music has a sense of adventure to it, and that it's done by the seat of your… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
I don't like those songs where you have to listen to a story to get into them. I don't want to have… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
I write songs in batches and then record them and then can't write again for ages. I try and build one song… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
I'm an Australian, and when I grew up much of my influences were American - blues music and country music, all that… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
I still feel very much an imposter in the whole music scene, which I'm quite happy about to be honest. — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
I write songs from the point of view I had at a time;I'm not tryingto write songs from a young person's point… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
Songs you can dip in and out of, but a book... well, it can overpower you. — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
Musicians are at the bottom of the creative pyramid and authors are at the top, and many people think it's unacceptable for… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
Rock music is the province of the young, and it should be made by young people. I'm not running around in a… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
“And I know why our friendship must be kept a secret. Or they will kill You like they killed You in the Bible. And… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
I want to write songs that are so sad, the kind of sad where you take someone's little finger and break it in three… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
“Through these days Bunny made increasingly frequent and protracted visits to the bathroom, beating off with a single-minded savagery intense even by Bunny's standards.… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
That's what we [outsiders] feel America is really about - the kind of crazed ravings of the Christian right - when it's probably something… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
“My relationship with my muse is a delicate one at the best of times and I feel that it is my duty to protect… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Early on I realized when you write a song about someone, it flatters them on some level, and gives you a lot of room… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
My father was a teacher and my mother also worked in the school, so the family has a background in education. — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
I think it's an essential fact for any performer or artist to fail as poignantly as they can succeed. — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
To my undying shame, I do read reviews. I don't read them all, but I like to get some kind of idea how things… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
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