Nick Cave Quotes
born 1957 Australia
Nick Cave (born 22 September 1957) is an Australian musician, songwriter, poet, author and actor.
- Australia
- Actors
- Composers
- Guitarists
- Novelists
Also known as: And The Ass Saw The Angel, And the Ass Saw the Angel
Random Nick Cave quote
15 quotes
The actualising of God through the medium of the love song remains my prime motivation as an artist.
Given during a lecture at the Vienna Poetry Festival (1998)
Love is a state that I would like to exist in continuously.
God is in everything whether I’m mentioning him or not.
My responsibility as an artist is to turn up at the page or the piano or the microphone. The rest is up to God.
Do I personally believe in a personal God? No.
'O come to me!, O come to me!' is what the dirty city say to Huck.
The thing about being young is that you think you're the final product of evolution. You are invincible. And nothing can hurt you. And people don't count. Ah, the solipsism of youth.
One morn I awakened, a new sun was shining,
The sky was a kingdom, all covered in blood.
I think there's a certain numbness in modern society, that accepts certain kinds of violence, but represses other kinds of violence.
I hear stories from the chamber,
How Christ was born into a manger,
And like some ragged stranger died up on the cross...
Oh, a passing, skeptical kind of interest. I'm a hammer-and-nails kind of guy.
The song is heroic because the song confronts death. The song is immortal and bravely stares down our own extinction. The song emerges from the spirit world with a true message: Some day I will tell you how to slay the dragon.
If you're involved with imagination and the creative process, it's not such a difficult thing to believe in a God. But I'm not involved in any religions, and I've never intended to make religious records or records that preach some kind of point of view.
God has matured. He is not the impulsive, bowelless being of the Testaments - the vehement glorymonger, with His bag of cheap carny tricks and his booming voice - the fiery huckster with his burning bushes and his wonder wands. Nowadays God knows what He wants and He knows who He wants.
Euchrid Eucrow in Cave's novel And the Ass Saw the Angel (1988)
Bunny takes another bite of his Big Mac and knows what everybody who is into this sort of things knows - that with its flaccid bun, its spongy meat, the cheese, the slimy little pickle and, of course, the briny special sauce, biting into a Big Mac is as close to eating pussy as, well, eating pussy.
The Death of Bunny Munro (2009)