Quote

Into the mercy seat I climb My head is shaved, my head is wired And like a moth that tries To enter the bright eye I go shuffling out of life Just to hide in death awhile And anyway I never lied.

Nick Cave

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Nick Cave
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: September 22
Actor
Author
Composer
Film Director
Librettist
Musician
Novelist
Pianist
Screenwriter
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Songwriter
Writer
Warracknabeal
Victoria
Australia
Nicholas Edward Cave
Eye
Tries
Shuffling
Death
Seats
Wired
Trying
Hide
Moths
Never
Bright
Awhile
Life
Enter
Lied
Like
Anyway
Seat
Mercy
Climb
Shaved
Head
Climbs
Moth

More quotes by Nick Cave

Image
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.
Nick Cave
Image
I don't feel I'm thrown around by the winds of taste and fashion.
Nick Cave
Image
I have to be able to see the thing that's going on that I'm writing about, or else it just doesn't make any sense to me.
Nick Cave
Image
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
Image
Most screen violence is tedious.
Nick Cave
Image
In the hysterical technocracy of modern music, sorrow is sent to the back of the class where it sits, pissing its pants in mortal terror.
Nick Cave
Image
I always thought my records were number one it's just the charts didn't think so.
Nick Cave
Image
There's always pain around. That's one thing you can guarantee in life - there will always be a surplus of pain.
Nick Cave
Image
My records are basically a litany of complaints against the world, and I'm quite like that in real life as well.
Nick Cave
Image
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.
Nick Cave
Image
Sometimes the song isn't strong enough to contain the fiction, because memories are fictions.
Nick Cave
Image
Songwriting, I have to take myself away from everybody to do. It's an unsightly act.
Nick Cave
Image
I have a particular dislike for children's films. I'm way past the novelty aspect.
Nick Cave
Image
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.
Nick Cave
Image
The society of whores stuck needles in an image of me.
Nick Cave
Image
I just want to leave this world with a massive catalog of songs.
Nick Cave
Image
But if you're gonna dine with them cannibals Sooner or later, darling, you're gonna get eaten . . .
Nick Cave
Image
Everybody tends to overplay live. That's just the nature of playing live. And that can be great, but it can also kill something that's special, and intimate, about a recorded version of a song. You find out very quickly which songs you can play, and which songs you do damage to by playing them live.
Nick Cave
Image
In getting older, I find myself becoming progressively more ineffectual in a lot of different ways, and part of that is down to no longer having the youthful feeling that what you're doing has any true impact.
Nick Cave
Image
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.
Nick Cave