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title: "56 Song Quotes By Nick Cave"
description: "Nick Cave's song quotes explore raw emotion, storytelling, and the living nature of music."
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> [When you're talking about rock n' roll, myth-making is what it's all about.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-cave/when-you-re-talking-about-rock-n-roll-myth-making-is-what-it-s-all/)

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> [I always thought my records were number one; it's just the charts didn't think so.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-cave/i-always-thought-my-records-were-number-one-it-s-just-the-charts-didn/)

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> [I don't write happy songs. Who does? I don't know anybody who writes happy songs, really.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-cave/i-don-t-write-happy-songs-who-does-i-don-t-know-anybody-who-writes/)

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> [You can't trust an artist that just makes good records.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-cave/you-can-t-trust-an-artist-that-just-makes-good-records/)

[Nick Cave](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-cave/)

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> [I write hate lyrics really well. It's not every day you can use them, really.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-cave/i-write-hate-lyrics-really-well-it-s-not-every-day-you-can-use-them/)

[Nick Cave](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-cave/)

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> [I just want to leave this world with a massive catalog of songs.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-cave/i-just-want-to-leave-this-world-with-a-massive-catalog-of-songs/)

[Nick Cave](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-cave/)

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> [I would hate to think my songs were giving advice to people.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-cave/i-would-hate-to-think-my-songs-were-giving-advice-to-people/)

[Nick Cave](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-cave/)

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> [There are times when I think I can sing it better, but usually I find that I can't.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-cave/there-are-times-when-i-think-i-can-sing-it-better-but-usually-i-find/)

[Nick Cave](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-cave/)

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> [My music has to do with beauty, and it's intended to, if not lift the spirits, then be a kind of a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-cave/my-music-has-to-do-with-beauty-and-it-s-intended-to-if-not-lift-the/)

[Nick Cave](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-cave/)

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> [What you're really after when you see a film or listen to a song is a singular vision, and I'm not sure…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-cave/what-you-re-really-after-when-you-see-a-film-or-listen-to-a-song-is-a/)

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> [The love song must be born into the realm of the irrational, absurd, the distracted, the melancholic, the obsessive, the insane for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-cave/the-love-song-must-be-born-into-the-realm-of-the-irrational-absurd/)

[Nick Cave](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-cave/)

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> [The big problem with songwriting for me is starting a new song. It's the thing where all the anguish exists, not in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-cave/the-big-problem-with-songwriting-for-me-is-starting-a-new-song-it-s-2/)

[Nick Cave](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-cave/)

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> [The songs that I like are the ones that you can't visualize, that are just cries from the heart - those very…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-cave/the-songs-that-i-like-are-the-ones-that-you-can-t-visualize-that-are/)

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> [Self-editing is the way I write. Ten verses of a song and it's finished. Then we start playing it and if I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-cave/self-editing-is-the-way-i-write-ten-verses-of-a-song-and-it-s/)

[Nick Cave](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-cave/)

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> [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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-cave/i-love-rock-n-roll-i-think-it-s-an-exciting-art-form-it-s/)

[Nick Cave](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-cave/)

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> [I want to write songs that are so sad, the kind of sad where you take someone's little finger and break it…](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/)

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> [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/)

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> [The band is a living, breathing thing. It grows in the same way we do as human beings and if it doesn't,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-cave/the-band-is-a-living-breathing-thing-it-grows-in-the-same-way-we-do/)

[Nick Cave](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-cave/)

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> [I feel like I've spent the last five years of my life on the road. It hasn't affected my songs but it's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-cave/i-feel-like-i-ve-spent-the-last-five-years-of-my-life-on-the-road-it/)

[Nick Cave](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-cave/)

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> [The idea of songwriting is a transformative thing, and what I do with songwriting is take situations that are quite ordinary and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-cave/the-idea-of-songwriting-is-a-transformative-thing-and-what-i-do-with/)

[Nick Cave](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-cave/)

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> [Music is storming, driving, relentless, devotional, slinky, subtle, heartbreakingly-beautiful sounds that, lyrically, switch from the cynical to the sanguine, the defeated to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-cave/music-is-storming-driving-relentless-devotional-slinky-subtle/)

[Nick Cave](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-cave/)

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> [Everybody tends to overplay live. That's just the nature of playing live. And that can be great, but it can also kill…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-cave/everybody-tends-to-overplay-live-that-s-just-the-nature-of-playing/)

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> [I know when I sit with my band members and we're playing back a song that we've done, I know that they're…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-cave/i-know-when-i-sit-with-my-band-members-and-we-re-playing-back-a-song/)

[Nick Cave](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-cave/)

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> [Certainly being proficient in an instrument does have its problems. Because the better you get, the more you just start sounding like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-cave/certainly-being-proficient-in-an-instrument-does-have-its-problems/)

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> [The reason I've gotten into script-writing, which was accidental to begin with, was that I found it was a far more effective…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-cave/the-reason-i-ve-gotten-into-script-writing-which-was-accidental-to/)

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> [“The boy will grow older, and over time there will be other songs – not many – ten or maybe twenty in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-cave/the-boy-will-grow-older-and-over-time-there-will-be-other-songs-not/)

[Nick Cave](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-cave/)

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> [The way I take in the world is by seeing it; that is very much evident in the songs that I write.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-cave/the-way-i-take-in-the-world-is-by-seeing-it-that-is-very-much-evident/)

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> [I've always hated narrative songs. I hate those songs where, basically, it's an unfolding of a story.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-cave/i-ve-always-hated-narrative-songs-i-hate-those-songs-where-basically/)

[Nick Cave](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-cave/)

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> [Songwriting, I have to take myself away from everybody to do. It's an unsightly act.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-cave/songwriting-i-have-to-take-myself-away-from-everybody-to-do-it-s-an/)

[Nick Cave](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-cave/)

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> [The actualising of God through the medium of the love song remains my prime motivation as an artist.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-cave/the-actualising-of-god-through-the-medium-of-the-love-song-remains-my/)

[Nick Cave](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-cave/)

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> [Sometimes the song isn't strong enough to contain the fiction, because memories are fictions.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-cave/sometimes-the-song-isn-t-strong-enough-to-contain-the-fiction-because/)

[Nick Cave](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-cave/)

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> [I'm unable to really write the kind of song that doesn't have a visual element, which most songs don't.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-cave/i-m-unable-to-really-write-the-kind-of-song-that-doesn-t-have-a/)

[Nick Cave](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-cave/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-cave/i-write-songs-from-the-point-of-view-i-had-at-a-time-i-m-not-tryingto/)

[Nick Cave](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-cave/)

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> [“I’m forever near a stereo saying, ‘What the fuck is this garbage?’ And the answer is always the Red Hot Chili Peppers.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-cave/i-m-forever-near-a-stereo-saying-what-the-fuck-is-this-garbage-and/)

[Nick Cave](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-cave/)

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> [With writing a song, I've always felt, right from the start, like I'm scraping the bottom of the barrel. I don't ever…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-cave/with-writing-a-song-i-ve-always-felt-right-from-the-start-like-i-m/)

[Nick Cave](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-cave/)

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> [The big problem with songwriting for me is starting a new song. It's the thing where all the anguish exists, not in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-cave/the-big-problem-with-songwriting-for-me-is-starting-a-new-song-it-s/)

[Nick Cave](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-cave/)

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> [I see it as my duty in some way is to be out in the world as an Australian putting forward what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-cave/i-see-it-as-my-duty-in-some-way-is-to-be-out-in-the-world-as-an/)

[Nick Cave](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-cave/)

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> [Rock music is the province of the young, and it should be made by young people. I'm not running around in a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-cave/rock-music-is-the-province-of-the-young-and-it-should-be-made-by/)

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> [I've always done a lot of research and stuff around the songs that I write so there are pages and pages of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-cave/i-ve-always-done-a-lot-of-research-and-stuff-around-the-songs-that-i/)

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> [Early on I realized when you write a song about someone, it flatters them on some level, and gives you a lot…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-cave/early-on-i-realized-when-you-write-a-song-about-someone-it-flatters/)

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## 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/)

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> [“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/)

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> [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/)

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> [“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/)

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> [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/)

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