--- title: "10 Needs Quotes By Nick Cave" description: "10 Needs quotes by Nick Cave. Plus more from Nick Cave and more Needs sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4b9/nick-cave-1153_art_we-as-visual-artists-need-to-continue-to_2744163.jpg" --- > [We as visual artists need to continue to be renegades and say, "Yes I am here to do a project, but what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-cave/we-as-visual-artists-need-to-continue-to-be-renegades-and-say-yes-i/) [Nick Cave](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-cave/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4b9/nick-cave-1153_art_we-as-visual-artists-need-to-continue-to_2744163.jpg) > [A rock musician's career is short-lived. To extend it, you need to do other things to keep yourself fresh.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-cave/a-rock-musician-s-career-is-short-lived-to-extend-it-you-need-to-do/) [Nick Cave](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-cave/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/33b/nick-cave-1153_career_a-rock-musician-s-career-is-short-lived_2823980.jpg) > [The more information you have, the more human our heroes become and consequently the less mysterious and godlike. They need to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-cave/the-more-information-you-have-the-more-human-our-heroes-become-and/) [Nick Cave](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-cave/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/66c/nick-cave-1153_godlike_the-more-information-you-have-the-more-h_1336025.jpg) > [ The secret to longevity in the music business is to change, and to be able to change. \[...\] An actor has to… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-cave/the-secret-to-longevity-in-the-music-business-is-to-change-and-to-be/) [Nick Cave](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-cave/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/36d/nick-cave-1153_able_the-secret-to-longevity-in-the-music-bus_1835537.jpg) > [Songs need to have the ability to change and to grow for sure. They take on lives of their own. Some songs…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-cave/songs-need-to-have-the-ability-to-change-and-to-grow-for-sure-they/) [Nick Cave](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-cave/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dd1/nick-cave-1153_ability_songs-need-to-have-the-ability-to-change_464662.jpg) > [The more settled I've become, the more problematic my characters have become. There was a period when I wrote sensitive and gentle…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-cave/the-more-settled-i-ve-become-the-more-problematic-my-characters-have/) [Nick Cave](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-cave/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7ba/nick-cave-1153_character_the-more-settled-i-ve-become-the-more-pr_1595679.jpg) > [Polly Jean, I love you. I love the texture of your skin, the taste of your saliva, the softness of your ears.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-cave/polly-jean-i-love-you-i-love-the-texture-of-your-skin-the-taste-of/) [Nick Cave](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-cave/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/20a/nick-cave-1153_arches_polly-jean-i-love-you-i-love-the-texture_177972.jpg) > [It is the haunted premises of longing that the true love song inhabits. It is a howl in the void, for love…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-cave/it-is-the-haunted-premises-of-longing-that-the-true-love-song/) [Nick Cave](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-cave/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c80/nick-cave-1153_children_it-is-the-haunted-premises-of-longing-th_826986.jpg) > [My muse is my wife. It's not some vague thing that flutters around the astrosphere or wherever it is. Sometimes as a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-cave/my-muse-is-my-wife-it-s-not-some-vague-thing-that-flutters-around-the/) [Nick Cave](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-cave/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b14/nick-cave-1153_form_my-muse-is-my-wife-it-s-not-some-vague-t_2442940.jpg) > [Not my biggest fear, but my biggest problem onstage is over-emphasizing what I do. I'm pushing too hard. You need to engage…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-cave/not-my-biggest-fear-but-my-biggest-problem-onstage-is-over/) [Nick Cave](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-cave/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f1f/nick-cave-1153_able_not-my-biggest-fear-but-my-biggest-probl_2450079.jpg) ## Other authors on Needs ## More by Nick Cave > [Texting is apocalyptic on some level. It's a reduction of things.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-cave/texting-is-apocalyptic-on-some-level-it-s-a-reduction-of-things/) [Nick Cave](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-cave/) > [“And I know why our friendship must be kept a secret. Or they will kill You like they killed You in the Bible. And…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-cave/and-i-know-why-our-friendship-must-be-kept-a-secret-or-they-will-kill/) [Nick Cave](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-cave/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-cave/i-want-to-write-songs-that-are-so-sad-the-kind-of-sad-where-you-take/) [Nick Cave](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-cave/) > [“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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-cave/through-these-days-bunny-made-increasingly-frequent-and-protracted/) [Nick Cave](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-cave/) > [Personally I find the story of Christ incredibly moving.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-cave/personally-i-find-the-story-of-christ-incredibly-moving/) [Nick Cave](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-cave/) > [ That's what we \[outsiders\] feel America is really about - the kind of crazed ravings of the Christian right - when it's probably something… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-cave/that-s-what-we-outsiders-feel-america-is-really-about-the-kind-of/) [Nick Cave](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-cave/) > [“My relationship with my muse is a delicate one at the best of times and I feel that it is my duty to protect…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-cave/my-relationship-with-my-muse-is-a-delicate-one-at-the-best-of-times/) [Nick Cave](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-cave/) > [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-cave/i-m-kind-of-old-school-and-love-nothing-more-than-sitting-opening-a/) [Nick Cave](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-cave/) > [Early on I realized when you write a song about someone, it flatters them on some level, and gives you a lot of room…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-cave/early-on-i-realized-when-you-write-a-song-about-someone-it-flatters/) [Nick Cave](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-cave/) > [My father was a teacher and my mother also worked in the school, so the family has a background in education.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-cave/my-father-was-a-teacher-and-my-mother-also-worked-in-the-school-so/) [Nick Cave](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-cave/) > [I think it's an essential fact for any performer or artist to fail as poignantly as they can succeed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-cave/i-think-it-s-an-essential-fact-for-any-performer-or-artist-to-fail-as/) [Nick Cave](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-cave/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-cave/to-my-undying-shame-i-do-read-reviews-i-don-t-read-them-all-but-i/) [Nick Cave](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-cave/) > [Brother, be a brother, fill this tiny cup of mine. And please, sir, make it whiskey: I have no head for wine!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-cave/brother-be-a-brother-fill-this-tiny-cup-of-mine-and-please-sir-make/) [Nick Cave](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-cave/) > [When you've been initiated, you can stand in the world differently. And I think it is up to all of us, we can have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-cave/when-you-ve-been-initiated-you-can-stand-in-the-world-differently-and/) [Nick Cave](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-cave/) > [Polly Jean, I love you. I love the texture of your skin, the taste of your saliva, the softness of your ears. I love…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-cave/polly-jean-i-love-you-i-love-the-texture-of-your-skin-the-taste-of/) [Nick Cave](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-cave/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/needs/nick-cave/#itemlist", "name": "10 Needs Quotes By Nick Cave", "numberOfItems": 10, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "We as visual artists need to continue to be renegades and say, \"Yes I am here to do a project, but what is the social service?\"", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Nick Cave" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-cave/we-as-visual-artists-need-to-continue-to-be-renegades-and-say-yes-i/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4b9/nick-cave-1153_art_we-as-visual-artists-need-to-continue-to_2744163.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4b9/nick-cave-1153_art_we-as-visual-artists-need-to-continue-to_2744163.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4b9/nick-cave-1153_art_we-as-visual-artists-need-to-continue-to_2744163.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“We as visual artists need to continue to be renegades and say, \"Yes I am here to do a project, but what is…” — Nick Cave", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "A rock musician's career is short-lived. 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It is the song of the lover in need of her loved one, the raving of the lunatic supplicant petitioning his God...The love song is the sound of our endeavors to become God-like, to rise up and above the earthbound and the mediocre.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Nick Cave" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-cave/it-is-the-haunted-premises-of-longing-that-the-true-love-song/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c80/nick-cave-1153_children_it-is-the-haunted-premises-of-longing-th_826986.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c80/nick-cave-1153_children_it-is-the-haunted-premises-of-longing-th_826986.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c80/nick-cave-1153_children_it-is-the-haunted-premises-of-longing-th_826986.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“It is the haunted premises of longing that the true love song inhabits. 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