Nick Cave Artist Quotes & Sayings

Real love is when you become selfless and you are more concerned about your mate's or children's egos than your own. You're now a giver instead of a taker. — Sylvester Stallone

I'd liked my first record, it was autobiographical and beautiful. — Lana Del Rey

You'll forget your inner peace, forget that it comes from impermanence. From knowing that everything will break. And only reason can right you. — E.J. Koh

The actualising of God through the medium of the love song remains my prime motivation as an artist. — Nick Cave

You can't trust an artist that just makes good records. — Nick Cave

The best way to rise in society is to use all possible means of persuading people that one has already risen in society. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

May we Americans all live up to our glorious heritage. — Harry S. Truman

One the wings of courage, one soars to his destiny. — Matshona Dhliwayo

An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany. — Nick Cave

It is by such means as the prize offered by your Committee that the attention of the world will be focused and that men and women will be inspired to greater efforts in the interest of peace. — Frank B. Kellogg

Ignorance is not bliss, but in my case, that was. — Victoria Principal

I think it's an essential fact for any performer or artist to fail as poignantly as they can succeed. — Nick Cave

My responsibility as an artist is to turn up at the page or the piano or the microphone. The rest is up to God. — Nick Cave

There are a few artists that I'm really into. I mean, I'm a big Nick Cave fan. And there's a band from Australia called Big Heavy Stuff that's one of my favorite bands ever. — J. Robbins

We go to war only to make peace. We never went to war with any other design. We carry the national conscience wherever we go. — William McKinley

Al Qaeda has declared war on the Somali pirates. That is awesome! Evil against evil. Like Alien versus Predator or Cheney versus his lawyer. — Craig Ferguson

There was once a poor shoemaker who had three fine strong sons and two pretty daughters and a third who could do nothing well, who shivered plates and tangled her spinning, who curdled milk, could not get butter to come, nor set a fire so that smoke did not pour into the room, a useless, hopeless, dreaming daughter, to whom her mother would often say that she should try to fend for herself in the wild wood, and then she would know the value of listening to advice, and of doing things properly. And this filled the perverse daughter with a great desire to go even a little way into the wild wood, where there were no plates and no stitching, but might well be a need of such things as she knew she had it in herself to perform ... — A.S. Byatt

Was not from a mixture of two races that the Titans sprang? — Jose Clemente Orozco