Nick Cave is a famous Australian born musician, songwriter, poet, and singer. He is best known for being the singer in the Birthday Party and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds bands. Popular Nick Cave albums include “Kicking Against the Pricks”, “The Good Son”, “Henry’s Dream”, “Let Love In”, “Murder Ballads”, “The Boatman’s Call”, “No More Shall We Part”, “Push the Sky Away”, and “Ghosteen”.
Mini biography: Born Nicholas Edward Cave on the 22nd of September, 1957 in Warracknabeal, Victoria, Australia. His mother Dawn Treadwell was a librarian and his father Colin Frank Cave was a technical school teacher. Cave was married to Viviane Carneiro in 1990 and they divorced in 1996. They had a son together: Luke Cave. He married his second wife Susie Bick in 1999 and they had two children together: Arthur and Earl. Cave also had a child with Beau Lazenby (Jethro.) His sons Arthur and Jethro have passed away.
List of Famous Nick Cave Music Quotes
I don’t go into the writing process with any idea of what’s going to come out and I don’t have much control over what does. In a way, I never really expect them to see the light of day or certainly to ever get recorded. I certainly don’t sit down to write lyrics with any desire to reveal anything. It’s not what I’m trying to do. Nick Cave
It’s watching **cking TV constantly that makes dysfunctional people. Nick Cave
There are no voices in the back of my mind saying ‘You really could have done this better’. Nick Cave
Although I’ve never been an atheist, there are periods when I struggled with the whole thing. As someone who uses words, you need to able to justify your belief with language, I’d have arguments and the atheist always won because he’d go back to logic. Belief in God is illogical, it’s absurd. There’s no debate. Nick Cave
We wanted to create a music that was raw and driving and supercharged using the gospel singers to add a lightness and levity to the whole thing. Nick Cave
I write a lot.. and very often I write a couple of lines that are particularly revealing in some kind of way. And then as a few more lines get added and a piece gets added, eventually the song pretty much takes over and you can’t really find a way to change those things. Nick Cave
Do you want to know how to write a song? Song-writing is about counterpoint. Counterpoint is the key. Putting two disparate images beside each other and seeing which way the sparks fly. Nick Cave
What always happens with The Bad Seeds, once we get hold of an idea we really run with it. We kind of ran with this beyond reason, in a way. It’s a monstrous thing in the end, and in my view quite unlistenable, but at the same time I guess it’s kind of a nice record to have. (talking of the Murder Ballads album). Nick Cave
The brutality of the Old Testament inspired me, the stories and grand gestures. I wrote that stuff up and it influenced the way I saw the world. What I’m trying to say is I didn’t walk around in a rage thinking God is a hateful god. I was influenced by looking at the Bible, and it suited me in my life vision at the time to see things in that way. Nick Cave
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