All Nick Cave Quotes
- What I think about when I frequent the Museum of Natural History, the Metropolitan [Museum of Art], and I look at these artifacts that are… Allows
- Sound doesn't always have to be heard. Sound can also be created by how a pattern is set up on a surface- how it moves… Across
- I don't believe in an interventionist God Believe
- The writer who refuses to explore the darker regions of the heart will never be able to write convincingly about the wonder, the magic and… Able
- Love songs come in many guises and are seemingly written for many reasons – as declarations or to wound – I have written songs for… All
- The love song must be born into the realm of the irrational, absurd, the distracted, the melancholic, the obsessive, the insane for the love song… Absurd
- It was about the preciousness of that, and how they viewed those birds as art, as something valuable. I didn't care one way or another… Alive
- Brother, be a brother, fill this tiny cup of mine. And please, sir, make it whiskey: I have no head for wine! Brother
- This is how it essentially is for Bunny Junior. He loves his dad. He thinks there is no dad better, cleverer, or more capable, and… Beside
- Who knows their own story? It certainly makes no sense when you’re in the middle of it Certainly Makes
- We cannot afford to be idle. To act on a bad idea is better than to not act at all. Because the worth of the… Act
- After a while, you just don't do things you don't wanna do - that's the great freedom you get, the older you get. You learn… Freedom
- I'm a kind of hard-wired pessimist. I can't help but see the world in a certain kind of way. Certain
- I don't think Hollywood makes many good films anymore. How many directors can you really trust to have an artistic vision, not a corporate vision… Anymore
- I've spent my life butting my head against other people's lack of imagination. Butting
- I am not interested in anything that doesn't have a genuine heart to it. You've got to have soul in the hole. If that isn't… Genuine
- My biggest fear is losing memory because memory is what we are. Your very soul and your very reason to be alive is tied up… Alive
- I have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don't like to get my knees dirty. I don't have a garden. Armchair
- My records are basically a litany of complaints against the world, and I'm quite like that in real life as well. Complaints
- You can't trust an artist that just makes good records. Artist