Ник Кейв цитаты

„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

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

—  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

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

—  Nick Cave, Complete Lyrics

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

„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

„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

„I am the king! I am the king! I am the king!
One dead marine through the hatch,
Scratch and scrape this heavenly body,
Every inch of winning skin,
Honey Honey Honey Honey Honey, come and kiss me-e-e-e-e-e!“

—  Nick Cave

Song lyrics, Junkyard (1982), Junkyard

„My oh My, what a wretched Life.
I was born on the day that my poor mama died.
I was cut from Her belly with a stanley knife.
My daddy did a jig with the drunk midwife“

—  Nick Cave

Song lyrics, Tender Prey (1988), Up Jumped the Devil

„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.“

—  Nick Cave

Euchrid Eucrow in Cave's novel And the Ass Saw the Angel (1988)
God and religion

„I don't particularly believe all love is doomed. But I guess, one is usually kinda suffering from some aborted love affair or association, rather than being at the peak of one. I think it's fairly obvious that a lot more suffering goes on in the name of love than the little happiness you can squeeze out of it. But I wouldn't like to dwell on it. Perhaps you could lighten up a bit.“

—  Nick Cave

Blissed Out: The Raptures of Rock, by Simon Reynolds (1988)
Love and relationships