Ник Кейв цитаты

„Мир — дерьмо, но в нем много поводов любить.“

—  Ник Кейв

„Я люблю рок-н-ролл. Это невероятная революционная форма самовыражения, способная изменить человека так, что он сам себя перестает узнавать. Впрочем, я вынужден признать: в рок-н-ролле очень много говна. Очень.“

—  Ник Кейв

„Я хочу думать, что Богу все равно, верят в него люди или нет, говорят о нем или молчат. Он — Бог, и он не должен интересоваться такими мелочами.“

—  Ник Кейв

„Меня угнетает тот факт, что большинство людей полагает, будто Господь существует, чтобы служить им и всячески помогать. Для них Господь — это мальчик-портье из космоса, которого можно позвать в любой момент, когда он тебе потребуется. Почему-то они никак не могут понять, что Господь существует затем, чтобы давать нам возможность и силы разобраться в наших делах самим.“

—  Ник Кейв

„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, книга The Death of Bunny Munro

Источник: The Death of Bunny Munro

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

—  Nick Cave

Источник: Complete Lyrics

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

—  Nick Cave

„I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.“

—  Nick Cave

„But if you're gonna dine with them cannibals
Sooner or later, darling, you're gonna get eaten…“

—  Nick Cave

„And she moves among the sparrows. And she floats upon the breeze. She moves among the flowers. She moves something deep inside of me“

—  Nick Cave

„I look at you and you look at me and
deep in our hearts know it

That you weren't much of a muse,
but then I weren't much of a poet“

—  Nick Cave

„People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.“

—  Nick Cave

„Samuel: What's a misanthrope?
Two Bob: A misanthrope is a bugger who hates every other bugger.
Samuel: Are we misanthropes?
Arthur: Lord no! We're family.“

—  Nick Cave

„If you got a trumpet, get on your feet, brother, and blow it!“

—  Nick Cave

„And I kissed away a thousand tears
My lady of the Various Sorrows
Some begged, some borrowed, some stolen
Some kept safe for tomorrow.“

—  Nick Cave

„When ya done ransackin' his room,
Grabbin' any-damn-thing that shines,
Throw the scraps down on the street,
Like all his books and his notes.
All his books and his notes and all the junk that he wrote,
The whole fucken lot goes right up in smoke.“

—  Nick Cave

Song lyrics, From Her to Eternity (1984), A Box for Black Paul

„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. I feel it intuitively, it comes from the heart, a magical place. But I still I fluctuate from day to day. Sometimes I feel very close to the notion of God, other times I don't. I used to see that as a failure. Now I see it as a strength, especially compared to the more fanatical notions of what God is. I think doubt is an essential part of belief.“

—  Nick Cave

Mojo (January, 2005)
God and religion

„Well saturday gives what sunday steals,
And a child is born on his brother's heels,
Come sunday morn the first-born is dead,
In a shoebox tied with a ribbon of red.“

—  Nick Cave

Song lyrics, The Firstborn Is Dead (1985), Tupelo

„Ah wassa born…
And Lord shakin', even then was dumpt into some icy font,
Like some great stinky unclean!
From slum-chuch to slum-church, ah spilt mah heart to some fat cunt behind a screen…“

—  Nick Cave

Song lyrics, Mutiny (1993), Mutiny in Heaven