All Nick Cave Quotes
- I am the captain of my pain. Captain
- A is for Answering all your prayers, N is for kNowing that your loverman's going to be the answer... All
- I can control the weather with my moods. I just can’t control my moods. Control
- Polly Jean, I love you. I love the texture of your skin, the taste of your saliva, the softness of your ears. I love every… Arches
- Death looms large I guess because it should. It's the one thing that we as human beings from birth have a right to. It's the… All
- If you got a trumpet, get on your feet, brother, and blow it! Blow
- But if you're gonna dine with them cannibals Sooner or later, darling, you're gonna get eaten . . . Cannibal
- God has matured. He is not the impulsive, bowel-less being of the Testaments - the vehement glory-monger, with His bag of cheap carny tricks and… Bag
- Music is storming, driving, relentless, devotional, slinky, subtle, heartbreakingly-beautiful sounds that, lyrically, switch from the cynical to the sanguine, the defeated to the defiant, dealing… Animal
- I was about 12 years old and I was sitting watching the television and it was some kind of talent show, you know, and on… Ape
- And she moves among the sparrows. And she floats upon the breeze. She moves among the flowers. She moves something deep inside of me Among
- You searched through all my poets, From Sappho through to Auden, I saw the book fall from your hands, As you slowly died of boredom. All
- In the hysterical technocracy of modern music, sorrow is sent to the back of the class where it sits, pissing its pants in mortal terror. Class
- I've got some words of wisdom. Funny
- Said 2,000 years of Christian history, baby And you ain't learned to love me yet? Baby
- I just found this world a hard place to be good in,’ says Bunny, then he closes his eyes and, with an expiration of breath,… Breath
- Hamlet got a gun now. Funny
- I don't particularly believe all love is doomed. But I guess, one is usually kinda suffering from some aborted love affair or association, rather than… Aborted
- Stars have their moments then they die. Die
- Out of sorrow entire worlds have been built out of longing great wonders have been willed they're only little tears darling let them spill and… Been
- And I wish that I was made of stone So that I would not have to see A beauty impossible to define A beauty impossible… Baby
- I look at you and you look at me and deep in our hearts know it That you weren't much of a muse, but then… Deep
- Into the mercy seat I climb My head is shaved, my head is wired And like a moth that tries To enter the bright eye… Awhile
- And I kissed away a thousand tears My lady of the Various Sorrows Some begged, some borrowed, some stolen Some kept safe for tomorrow. Begged
- I think it's an essential fact for any performer or artist to fail as poignantly as they can succeed. Any