Nick Cave quotes - page 3

My social conscience is fairly limited in a lot of ways; there's not much I'm angry about that doesn't affect me quite directly. But the prison system- not particularly capital punishment- but the penal system as it is, and the whole apparatus of judgement, people deciding on other people's fates... that does irritate, and upset me quite a lot. What angers me about the system goes beyond the unreliability of "proof"... it's that the way criminals are dealt with has nothing to do with rehabilitation and readjusting people who've stepped outside society's norms. The same goes for mental institutions and so forth. But it's also the very idea of someone being judged "criminal" or "insane" because they're unable to fit into what a corrupt society considers "social" or "sociable." (Nick Cave)
It's a wonderful life if you can find it. View quote
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I just found this world a hard place to be good in,' says Bunny, then he closes his eyes and, with an expiration of breath, goes still. View quote
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If you got a trumpet, get on your feet, brother, and blow it! View quote
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Fingers down the throat of love! Love! Love! View quote
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The boy watches his father cross the road and thinks there is something about the way his dad moves through the world that is truly impressive. Cars screech to a halt, drives shake their fists and stick their heads out the windows and curse and blow their horns and Bunny walks on as if radiating some super-human force field, like he has walked off the pages of a comic book. The world can't touch him. He seems to be the grand generator of some hyper-powerful electricity. View quote
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My oh My, what a wretched Life. I was born on the day that my poor mama died. I was cut from Her belly with a stanley knife. My daddy did a jig with the drunk midwife. View quote
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The spears of the bright sun, all brave with its conquest, Did hover unearthly, in banners of fire. I knelt in the garden, awash with the dawning, And a voice came so brightly, I covered my eyes. View quote
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Along crags and sunless cracks I go, Up rib of rock, down spine of stone, I dare not slumber where the right winds whistle, Lest her creeping-soul clutch this heart of thistle. View quote
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I am the black crow king, Keeper of the forgotten corn, The King! View quote
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The carny had a horse, all skin and bone, A bow-backed nag, that he named "Sorrow", Now it is buried in a shallow grave, In the then parched meadow. (Nick Cave)
Tupelo-o-o! Hey, Tupelo! You will reap just what you sow. View quote
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Of course I doubt [the existence of God], I would distrust anybody who didn't doubt. But I'm a believer. I have an understanding and belief in the divinity of things. It seems to me that people look at God in the wrong way. They think that God is there to serve them, but it's the other way around. God isn't some kind of cosmic bell-boy to be called upon to sort things out for us. It's important for us to realise that God has given us the potential to sort things out on our own. View quote
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King Ink strolls into town... He sniffs around. View quote
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Punishment? Reward! Punishment? Reward! View quote
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Here is the hammer, that build the scaffold, and built the box... View quote
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The song is heroic because the song confronts death. The song is immortal and bravely stares down our own extinction. The song emerges from the spirit world with a true message: Some day I will tell you how to slay the dragon. View quote
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Hold me up baby, for I may fall, Hold my dish-rag body tall, Our bodies melt together, we are one, Post-crucifixion baby, post-crucifixion and all undone. View quote
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From the words and the thickets, Come the ghosts of his victims, 'We love you!' 'Ah love you! View quote
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Death favours those that favour death. View quote
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And as the company passed from the valley, into a higher ground, The rain beat on the ridge and on the meadow, and on the mound, Until nothing was left, nothing at all except the body of Sorrow, That rose in time, to float upon the surface of the eaten soil. (Nick Cave)
The mo-o-o-on, its huge cycloptic eye, Watches the city streets contract, twist and cripple and crack. View quote
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I took her from rags right through to stitches, Oh baby, tonight we sleep in separate ditches. View quote
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I tried to kill it in my bed, I gagged it with a pillow, But awoke the nuns inside my head. View quote
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A thousand Marys lured me, To feathered beds and fields of glover, Bird with crooked wing cast, Its wicked shadow over, A bauble moon did mock, And trinket stars did smile, Your funeral, my trial. View quote
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