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Nick Cave

(1959) Sound Artist United States

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Nick Cave is a sound artist from the United States, best known for The death of Bunny Munro: A Novel.

Quick Facts About Nick Cave

Born: February 4, 1959
Nationality: United States
Profession: Sound Artist
Notable works: The death of Bunny Munro: A Novel
Known for: Each One, Every One, Equal All

About Nick Cave

Nicholas Edward Cave is an Australian singer, musician and writer. He is the frontman of the rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Known for his baritone voice, Cave's music is characterised by emotional intensity, a wide variety of influences and lyrical obsessions with death, religion, love, and violence.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Fellow of the American Craft Council

Quotes by Nick Cave · Page 11

I'm an Australian, and when I grew up much of my influences were American - blues music and country music, all that…

American

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Said 2,000 years of Christian history, baby And you ain't learned to love me yet?

Baby

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There's always pain around. That's one thing you can guarantee in life - there will always be a surplus of pain.

Always

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“When?' said the moon to the stars in the sky Soon' said the wind that followed them all Who?' said the cloud…

Stars in the sky

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You write a scene, and it works or it doesn't. It's immediate.

Immediate

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I am the captain of my pain.

Captains

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Your limitations make you the wonderful disaster you most probably are.

Disaster

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God is in everything whether I'm mentioning him or not.

God

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I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should…

Art

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Film seems to be a medium designed for betrayal and violence.

Betrayal

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To me, I don't write when I'm depressed. If I'm depressed, which is actually rare, I'm not doing anything, you know, and…

Able

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There are methods to creating a mayhem that sounds different from your usual mayhem. Because mayhem and a heavy drum backbeat end…

Air

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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…

Cutting

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I don't have any authority to talk about the domestic policies of America. But as an outsider, I am mystified by the…

America

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“Then he smiles because he knows deep in his bones that his dad has gone and said something really funny probably. He…

2009

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At some point you start seeing the difference between what you really want, and what is your priority order. I feel that…

Concentration

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The society of whores stuck needles in an image of me.

Community

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“And Satan sighed and shook his head, played harp amongst the flames. ‘It’s Hell up there in Heaven too, for all that…

Hell on earth

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Despite what people might think, I'm not interested in being dark all the time. I'm actually searching for some kind of light,…

Achieve

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I don't know, maybe Australian humour isn't supposed to be funny. It's as dry as the Sahara, and I think people miss…

Australian

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Musicians are at the bottom of the creative pyramid and authors are at the top, and many people think it's unacceptable for…

Books

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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…

Made

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“Comatose, Pa's wife, the slobstress, buried an armchair beneath her bulk.”

Marriage

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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…

Band

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Songs you can dip in and out of, but a book... well, it can overpower you.

Book

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