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From Quotes by Nick Cave
- Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something…
- Look, when I look back, from 20 onwards, I was actually having a pretty good time, I have to say.
- Songwriting, I have to take myself away from everybody to do. It's an unsightly act.
- There's an element to songwriting that I can't explain, that comes from somewhere else. I can't explain that dividing line between nothing and something that…
- I lost my innocence with Johnny Cash. I used to watch the 'Johnny Cash Show' on television in Wangaratta when I was about 9 or…
- Musicians are at the bottom of the creative pyramid and authors are at the top, and many people think it's unacceptable for someone to attempt…
- The idea of songwriting is a transformative thing, and what I do with songwriting is take situations that are quite ordinary and transform them in…
- There are methods to creating a mayhem that sounds different from your usual mayhem. Because mayhem and a heavy drum backbeat end up sounding like…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.
- 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…
- Most of my ideals and stuff really come from my mother.
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