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Nick Cave is an Australian musician, songwriter, author, and leader of the band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. His work is known for its emotional intensity, dark themes, and poetic lyrics. He has influenced generations of artists and remains a powerful figure in contemporary music and culture. Here are 197 of his quotes:

Samuel: What's a misanthrope? Two Bob: A misanthrope is a bugger who hates every other bugger. Samuel: Are we misanthropes? Arthur: Lord no! We're family. (Nick Cave)
Film seems to be a medium designed for betrayal and violence. View quote
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When I'm singing 'Deanna,' for example, which I sing pretty much every night, it brings forward a kind of imagined, romanticized lie about this particular person, which I find really comforting and exciting to sing about. View quote
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If I'm hanging around too much, my wife and kids say, 'Hey, why don't you go downstairs and start a new novel?' View quote
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A rock musician's career is short-lived. To extend it, you need to do other things to keep yourself fresh. View quote
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I just want to leave this world with a massive catalog of songs. View quote
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Despite what people might think, I'm not interested in being dark all the time. I'm actually searching for some kind of light, and I'm always very happy when I can achieve that. View quote
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The big problem with songwriting for me is starting a new song. It's the thing where all the anguish exists, not in the writing of the song, but the starting of the new song. View quote
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Look, when I look back, from 20 onwards, I was actually having a pretty good time, I have to say. View quote
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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. View quote
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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)
To my undying shame, I do read reviews. I don't read them all, but I like to get some kind of idea how things are going. View quote
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Writing screenplays makes me a better musician because it clears my head. After writing a movie, I go running back to music as fast as I can. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I don't really do Japanese interviews. I don't think there's much call for me in Japan. View quote
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Most screen violence is tedious. View quote
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Writing is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life. View quote
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If you took love out of the equation, I wouldn't know what else to write about. View quote
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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 10 years old. At that stage I had really no idea about rock n' roll. I watched him, and from that point I saw that music could be an evil thing - a beautiful, evil thing. View quote
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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)
My muse is my wife. It's not some vague thing that flutters around the astrosphere or wherever it is. Sometimes as a songwriter you need something to hang a song on, to give it some kind of presence and form. For me, Susie is that. View quote
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I consider myself to be first and foremost a comic writer. The way I entertain myself - especially in those long and grim hours in the office - is to write stuff I find funny. View quote
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I don't write happy songs. Who does? I don't know anybody who writes happy songs, really. View quote
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The more information you have, the more human our heroes become and consequently the less mysterious and godlike. They need to be godlike. View quote
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Photo: Yves Lorson, CC BY 2.0
Occupation: Australian Musician
Born: September 22, 1957
Quotes count: 197
Wikipedia: Nick Cave

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