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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:

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)
I always thought my records were number one; it's just the charts didn't think so. View quote
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I know when I sit with my band members and we're playing back a song that we've done, I know that they're experiencing it in a completely different way and hearing stuff that they're alerted to because the way the interpret the world is through their ears. Mine is through my eyes. View quote
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The band is a living, breathing thing. It grows in the same way we do as human beings and if it doesn't, it dies. It's important to feed the organism, and one way of doing that is to set musical challenges that keep it alive. View quote
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I have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don't like to get my knees dirty. I don't have a garden. View quote
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I've watched 'Oprah Winfrey.' And I'm proud. I don't care what anybody says! I don't know whether I've watched it. I've been in the room while it's been on. View quote
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My records are basically a litany of complaints against the world, and I'm quite like that in real life as well. View quote
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Songwriting, I have to take myself away from everybody to do. It's an unsightly act. View quote
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I've always been at war with the guitar. All vocalists are fighting a war with the electric rhythm guitar. View quote
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L.A. is full of screenwriters. I don't know why. On many levels, it's such a thankless occupation. View quote
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It's always a pleasure on a personal note for me to come back to Australia. (Nick Cave)
Being a parent can make you a horrible person at times, because you're pushed to the limit constantly. View quote
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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. View quote
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What you're really after when you see a film or listen to a song is a singular vision, and I'm not sure how much of that you really get in Hollywood. View quote
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Guns are part of the American psyche, aren't they? This is collateral damage for having a Wild West mentality. It's intrinsic to the American psyche. It's never going to change. View quote
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I have a particular dislike for children's films. I'm way past the novelty aspect. View quote
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I don't feel I'm thrown around by the winds of taste and fashion. View quote
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I've always hated narrative songs. I hate those songs where, basically, it's an unfolding of a story. View quote
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I'm hugely self-critical in the morning. View quote
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I'm an Australian, and when I grew up much of my influences were American - blues music and country music, all that sort of thing. View quote
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Writing a good song is not mimicry, or replication, or pastiche, it is the opposite, it is an act of self-murder that destroys all one has strived to produce in the past. It is those dangerous, heart-stopping departures that catapult the artist beyond the limits of what he or she recognises as their known self. This is part of the authentic creative struggle that precedes the invention of a unique lyric of actual value; it is the breathless confrontation with one's vulnerability, one's perilousness, one's smallness, pitted against a sense of sudden shocking discovery; it is the redemptive artistic act that stirs the heart of the listener, where the listener recognizes in the inner workings of the song their own blood, their own struggle, their own suffering. (Nick Cave)
N is for Any. View quote
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Occupation: Australian Musician
Born: September 22, 1957
Quotes count: 197
Wikipedia: Nick Cave

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