Top 17 Nick Cave Quotes



I’m forever near a stereo saying, ‘What the fuck is this garbage?’ And the answer is always the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

 

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.

 

There are those who work so they can stop. Stopping is the why of work.There are those who stop so they can work.Working is the why of work.

 

Out of sorrow entire worlds have been builtOut of longing great wonders have been willed

 

But if you’re gonna dine with them cannibalsSooner or later, darling, you’re gonna get eaten . . .

 

Listen, ah don’t wanna speak ill of the dead but have ah told you that mah mother was a great whopping whale of a cunt? Well she was precisely that – a great whopping whale of a hog’s cunt with a dirty maggot for a brain.

 

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

 

My father was a teacher and my mother also worked in the school, so the family has a background in education.

 

The last thing I ever wanted to get involved with is Hollywood. The way it works is that people get an idea you could possibly do something, but there’s a one-in-a-hundred chance that it could get made.

 

I don’t think Hollywood makes many good films anymore. How many directors can you really trust to have an artistic vision, not a corporate vision or a watered-down communal one?

 

You can’t trust an artist that just makes good records.

 

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

 

I’ve spent my life butting my head against other people’s lack of imagination.

 

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.

 

Moving to the country is a very bold thing to do. You can have vague romantic notions about doing that, but in actuality, it can be a terrifying thing.

 

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.

 

After a while, you just don’t do things you don’t wanna do – that’s the great freedom you get, the older you get. You learn what to do and what not to do, and what will be a waste of time and what won’t be a waste of time.

 

 

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