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Nick Cave (Musician)

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 happiness

I don't have any authority to talk about the domestic policies of America. But as an outsider, I am mystified by the fact that you are encouraged to buy a gun, but if you use it for the purpose that it is expressly designed for, you get the death penalty. That aspect of America is kind of mystifying.

— Nick Cave death

If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that.

— Nick Cave work

I have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don't like to get my knees dirty. I don't have a garden.

An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany.

— Nick Cave inspiration

Most of the time, feelings just seem to get in the way. They're a luxury for the idle, a bourgeois concept. Feelings are overrated.

— Nick Cave time

A gentleman never talks about his tailor.

— Nick Cave man

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 happy

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

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 some way. Apart from things like the murder ballads, the songs I write, at their core, are quite ordinary human concerns, but the process of writing about them transforms them into something else.

— Nick Cave writing

Most people wait for the muse to turn up. That's terribly unreliable. I have to sit down and pursue the muse by attempting to work.

— Nick Cave people

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 light

People often can't separate, or can't understand, that to be funny is to be serious; it's a way of pulling people in and not scaring them off. I think a lot of the funny stuff, underneath it, there's a deep anxiety going on.

— Nick Cave funny

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 people

At some point you start seeing the difference between what you really want, and what is your priority order. I feel that today I know what I want. That's the problem with perspective, as well as focus and concentration.

— Nick Cave art

People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.

— Nick Cave think

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

— Nick Cave music

The rock star is dying. And it's a small tragedy. Rock stars have blogs now. I have no use for that kind of rock star.

— Nick Cave age

Kylie Minogue is the greatest thing that has happened to Australian music.

— Nick Cave music

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 art

I love rock-n-roll. I think it's an exciting art form. It's revolutionary. Still revolutionary and it changed people. It changed their hearts. But yeah, even rock-n-roll has a lot of rubbish, really bad music.

— Nick Cave love

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

— Nick Cave ya

My music has to do with beauty, and it's intended to, if not lift the spirits, then be a kind of a balm to the spirits.

— Nick Cave beauty

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 writing

I love being manipulated by what I see. I love weepies and romantic comedies where you're reaching for the Kleenex at the right moment.

— Nick Cave love

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. Theres immense happiness that can come from working towards that.

— Nick Cave happiness

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 in love, war, beauty, children, romance, rejection, Pethedine, poetry, panties, God, Auden, Johnny Cash, cold potatoes, too-much-money, not enough money, writer’s block, flowers, animals and more flowers. But maybe I’m projecting here.

— Nick Cave love

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