Quote

Oh, a passing, skeptical kind of interest. I'm a hammer-and-nails kind of guy.

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
Interest
Kind
Hammer
Hammers
Skeptical
Nails
Passings
Passing
Guy

More quotes by Nick Cave

Image
Songwriting, I have to take myself away from everybody to do. It's an unsightly act.
Nick Cave
Image
I love America. I really do. It's by far the place I like visiting out of anywhere in the world. I get a palpable sense of excitement when the plane's landing. It's a cliché, but there's still an incredible energy about New York in particular.
Nick Cave
Image
I don't like those songs where you have to listen to a story to get into them. I don't want to have to pay attention to music in that way, I just want it to hit me in the heart and do what music's supposed to do.
Nick Cave
Image
Love songs come in many guises and are seemingly written for many reasons – as declarations or to wound – I have written songs for all of these reasons – but ultimately the love songs exist to fill, with language, the silence between ourselves and God, to decrease the distance between the temporal and the divine.
Nick Cave
Image
I write songs from the point of view I had at a timeI'm not tryingto write songs from a young person's point of view.That only ends in disaster.
Nick Cave
Image
I'm a kind of hard-wired pessimist. I can't help but see the world in a certain kind of way.
Nick Cave
Image
As people buy less and less records, it's become more and more important for me to spend more and more on them - to lavish that much more attention on them. The Bad Seeds were always quite protective and old school, but Grinderman has opened us up to do anything and be shameless. We're not so precious about it.
Nick Cave
Image
Jesus Christ was the biggest blight on the human race, he was. And all them socialists and communists - second rate Christianity.
Nick Cave
Image
I think there's a certain numbness in modern society, that accepts certain kinds of violence, but represses other kinds of violence.
Nick Cave
Image
Some are exploring the world through the subconscious. I've done that on occasions for various reasons, whether it be illness or self abuse, or whatever. Once things start to look grotesque I don't write them or sing them. I couldn't write them - making nightmares into living daylight...The minute it gets dark I shoot back, retreat.
Nick Cave
Image
I don't write happy songs. Who does? I don't know anybody who writes happy songs, really.
Nick Cave
Image
That's what we [outsiders] feel America is really about - the kind of crazed ravings of the Christian right - when it's probably something quite different.
Nick Cave
Image
A is for Answering all your prayers, N is for kNowing that your loverman's going to be the answer.
Nick Cave
Image
Texting is apocalyptic on some level. It's a reduction of things.
Nick Cave
Image
We are still struggling with people who don't feel comfortable going into museums. As a visual artist I ask how artists can be part of enacting a change.
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
I can control the weather with my moods. I just can’t control my moods.
Nick Cave
Image
People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.
Nick Cave
Image
Out of sorrow entire worlds have been built out of longing great wonders have been willed they're only little tears darling let them spill and lay your head upon my shoulder.
Nick Cave
Image
I am the captain of my pain.
Nick Cave