Nick Cave quotes

Inspiration is a word used by people who aren't really doing anything. (Nick Cave)
People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions. View quote
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Oh, a passing, skeptical kind of interest. I'm a hammer-and-nails kind of guy. View quote
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God has matured. He is not the impulsive, bowelless being of the Testaments - the vehement glorymonger, with His bag of cheap carny tricks and his booming voice - the fiery huckster with his burning bushes and his wonder wands. Nowadays God knows what He wants and He knows who He wants. View quote
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The actualising of God through the medium of the love song remains my prime motivation as an artist. View quote
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My responsibility as an artist is to turn up at the page or the piano or the microphone. The rest is up to God. View quote
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God is in everything whether I'm mentioning him or not. View quote
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Love is a state that I would like to exist in continuously. View quote
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Do I personally believe in a personal God? No. View quote
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I think there's a certain numbness in modern society, that accepts certain kinds of violence, but represses other kinds of violence. View quote
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I've always had an obligation to creation, above all. (Nick Cave)
O You kings of halls and ends of halls, You will die within these walls, And I'll go, all down the row, Knockin' on Joe. View quote
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Pilgrim gets 1 hacked daughter, And all we get are 40 hack reporters, Uptown 100 skirts are bleeding, And Mr. Evangilist says She's hit, ev'ry little bit. View quote
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O the same God that abandon'd her, Has in turn abandon'd me, Deep in the Desert of Despair, I wait at the Well of Misery. View quote
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Another ship ready to dock... the rigging comes loose... like Jennifer's Veil. View quote
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Ah've cried one thousand tears, it's true. View quote
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And I kissed away a thousand tears My lady of the Various Sorrows Some begged, some borrowed, some stolen Some kept safe for tomorrow. View quote
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If this is heaven ahm bailin' out! View quote
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O come to me!, O come to me!' is what the dirty city say to Huck. View quote
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O you recall the song ya used to sing-a-long, Shifting the river-trade on that ol' steamer, Life is but a dream! View quote
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O poor heart, I was doomed from the start, Doomed to play the villian's part, I was the baddest Johnny in the apple cart, My blood was blacker than the chambers of a dead nun's heart. (Nick Cave)
Tallys up his loneliness, notch by notch, For the sea offers nuthin' to hold or touch. View quote
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I hear stories from the chamber, How Christ was born into a manger, And like some ragged stranger died up on the cross, And might I say it seems to fitting in its way, He was a carpenter by trade, Or at least that's what I'm told. View quote
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Well saturday gives what sunday steals, And a child is born on his brother's heels, Come sunday morn the first-born is dead, In a shoebox tied with a ribbon of red. View quote
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Nick the Stripper, Hideous to the eye, Hideous to the eye, He's a fat little insect, A fat little insect, And oooooooh! Here we go again. View quote
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