79 Nick Cave Quotes for You to Enjoy

Nick Cave

Australian Musician

Born: Sep 22, 1957

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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 what to do and what not to do, and what will be a waste of time and what won't be a waste of time. Nick Cave

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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 more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There's immense happiness that can come from working towards that. Nick Cave

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In getting older, I find myself becoming progressively more ineffectual in a lot of different ways, and part of that is down to no longer having the youthful feeling that what you're doing has any true impact. Nick Cave

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

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I'm a big fan of teatowels and am always on the lookout for a good one. Nick Cave

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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 happens within a song, where you have absolutely nothing, and then suddenly you have something. It's like the origin of the universe. Nick Cave

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Texting is apocalyptic on some level. It's a reduction of things. Nick Cave

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The only person who can say they're happy getting old is someone who isn't actually old yet. Every day, I get less and less happy about that idea. Nick Cave

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The blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body. Nick Cave

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I suspect the older you get the more invisible you become. Nick Cave

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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 always be an exchange. Nick Cave

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If you took love out of the equation, I wouldn't know what else to write about. Nick Cave

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If you're Australian, you feel it in your bones because you're at odds with everybody else, except other Australians, in the sense that people always seem to be behaving strangely. People always seem to be behaving the wrong way, in a different way. You say things and there are silences. Nick Cave

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'Inspiration' is a word used by people who aren't really doing anything. Nick Cave

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At the end, we're kind of observers - creative people, I mean. I feel like an observer, and I'm pretty much able to step out of things and see how things are playing out. Nick Cave

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You can't trust an artist that just makes good records. Nick Cave

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The work ethic at art school is completely different than the work ethic amongst people who get into music. People who paint, it's an honorable thing to spend all day and all night in front of your canvas - that is the romantic vision of the painter. Nick Cave

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I write a lot, and very often I write a couple of lines that are particularly revealing in some kind of way. And then as a few more lines get added and a piece gets added, eventually the song pretty much takes over and you can't really find a way to change those things. Nick Cave

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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 up sounding like Green Day or something. But if you put a different beat within it to create some air and lightness, the chaos comes through better. Nick Cave

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I always thought my records were number one; it's just the charts didn't think so. Nick Cave

Thought Think Charts Records Always Were Just Number

I became a script writer with absolutely no idea of how to write a script whatsoever. I still feel a bit of an outsider in that regard. If I can maintain that approach to screenwriting, it can continue to be enjoyable. Nick Cave

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