Nick Cave Quotes

• All of our days are numbered. We cannot afford to be idle. To act on a bad idea is better than to not act at all, because the worth of an idea never becomes apparent until you do it.

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  Ideas, Idle, Bad Ideas

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• We cannot afford to be idle. To act on a bad idea is better than to not act at all. Because the worth of the idea never becomes apparent until you do it. Sometimes this idea can be the smallest thing in the world, a little flame that you hunch over and cup with your hand, and pray will not be extinguished by all the storm that howls about it. If you could hold onto that flame, great things could construct around it, that are massive and powerful and world changing, all held up by the tiniest of ideas.

  Nick Cave

  Powerful, Flames, Hands

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• Your limitations make you the wonderful disaster you most probably are.

  Nick Cave

  Wonderful, Disaster, Limitation

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• I can control the weather with my moods. I just can’t control my moods.

  Nick Cave

  Weather, Mood, I Can

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• I want to write songs that are so sad, the kind of sad where you take someone's little finger and break it in three places.

  Nick Cave

  Song, Writing, Three

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's a wonderful life if you can find it.

  Nick Cave

  Wonderful, Wonderful Life, Ifs

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• He who seeks, finds, and who knocks, will be let in.

  Nick Cave

  Song: Are You The One That I've Been Waiting For?

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• The writer who refuses to explore the darker regions of the heart will never be able to write convincingly about the wonder, the magic and the joy of love for just as goodness cannot be trusted unless it has breathed the same air as evil.

  Nick Cave

  Writing, Heart, Air

  Nick Cave (2007). “The Complete Lyrics: 1978-2013”, p.23, Penguin UK

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• El deber de un artista es más bien permanecer con la mente abierta y en un estado en el que pueda recibir información e inspiración. Siempre hay que estar preparado para esa pequeña Epifanía artística.

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  Art, Inspiration, Tolerance

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• Who knows their own story? It certainly makes no sense when you’re in the middle of it

  Nick Cave

  Stories, Middle, Knows

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• Most people wait for the muse to turn up. That's terribly unreliable. I have to sit down and pursue the muse by attempting to work.

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  Gente, Esperando, Abajo Y

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• Love is a state that I would like to exist in continuously.

  Nick Cave

  Love Is, States

  The Daily Telegraph, November 20, 1997.

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• La música es tormentosa, impulsora, implacable, devocional, deslizante, sutil, desgarradoramente bella, sonidos que, líricamente, cambian de lo cínico a lo sanguíneo, de lo derrotado a lo desafiante, tratando del amor, la guerra, la belleza, los niños, el romance, el rechazo, Pethedine, la poesía, las bragas, Dios, Auden, Johnny Cash, patatas frías, demasiado dinero, no suficiente dinero, bloqueo del escritor, flores, animales y más flores. Pero quizá esté proyectando algo.

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  Beautiful, Children, Block

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• I'm not in the business of telling people what to do. I'm much more in the business of describing things, situations and stuff like that and leaving them out there, and you can make up your minds about them.

  Nick Cave

  People, Leaving, Mind

  "Nick Cave is not in the business of telling people what to do". Interview with Christopher Kompanek, music.avclub.com. April 8, 2013.

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• I've never been interested in being relevant.

  Nick Cave

  Correspondiente

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. September 20, 2010.

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• Polly Jean, I love you. I love the texture of your skin, the taste of your saliva, the softness of your ears. I love every inch and every part of your entire body. From your toes and the beautifully curved arches of your feet, to the exceptional shade and warmth of your dark hair. I need you in my life, I hope you need me too.

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  Love You, Dark, Hair

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• Hay un elemento en la composición que no puedo explicar, que viene de otra parte. No puedo explicar esa línea divisoria entre la nada y algo que sucede dentro de una canción, donde no tienes absolutamente nada y de repente tienes algo. Es como el origen del universo.

  Nick Cave

  Song, Somewhere Else, Elements

  "Nick Cave is not in the business of telling people what to do". Interview with Christopher Kompanek, www.avclub.com. April 8, 2013.

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• I am not interested in anything that doesn't have a genuine heart to it. You've got to have soul in the hole. If that isn't there, I don't see the point.

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  Heart, Soul, Holes

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The artistic process seems to be mythologized quite a lot into something far greater than it actually is. It is just hard labor.

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  Artistic, Process, Labor

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• The love song must be born into the realm of the irrational, absurd, the distracted, the melancholic, the obsessive, the insane for the love song is the noise of love itself and love is, of course, a form of madness.

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  Song, Love Is, Insane

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• 'Inspiration' is a word used by people who aren't really doing anything.

  Nick Cave

  Inspiration, People, Used

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• But if you're gonna dine with them cannibals Sooner or later, darling, you're gonna get eaten . . .

  Nick Cave

  Darling, Dine, Cannibal

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• I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.

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  Creer, Escribir, Creativo

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• I'm a big fan of teatowels and am always on the lookout for a good one.

  Nick Cave

  Aficionados, Grandes

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• Sorrow's child grieves not what has passed, but all the past still yet to come.

  Nick Cave

  Children, Past, Grieving

  Nick Cave (2007). “The Complete Lyrics: 1978-2013”, p.177, Penguin UK

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