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Nicholas Edward Cave, dit Nick Cave [nɪk ˈkeɪv], né le 22 septembre 1957 à Warracknabeal , est un artiste pluridisciplinaire australien ayant acquis sa notoriété en tant que chanteur, auteur et compositeur du groupe Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, où il exprime sa fascination pour la musique populaire américaine et ses racines, notamment le blues ; il est en outre écrivain, poète, scénariste et occasionnellement acteur. Il réside à Brighton, au Royaume-Uni. Wikipedia  

✵ 22. septembre 1957
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Nick Cave: Citations en anglais

“Oh! Yer! What a wonderful life! Fats Domino on the radio!”

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Nick Cave livre King Ink

Song lyrics, Prayers on Fire (1981), King Ink

“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.”

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"Interview with Nick Cave" http://www.musicomh.com/music/features/nick-cave_0308.htm, musicOMH (March, 2008)
God and religion

“My body is a monster driven insane,
My heart is a fish toasted in flames.”

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Song lyrics, Prayers on Fire (1981), Zoo-Music Girl

“Ah've cried one thousand tears, it's true.”

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

“The woods eats the woman and dumps her honey-body in the mud,
Her dress floats down the well and it assumes the shape of the body of a little girl,
Yeah, I recognize that girl,
She stumbled in some time last loneliness,
But I could not stand to touch her now,
My one and only onlyness.”

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Song lyrics, The Bad Seed EP (1993), Deep in the Woods

“Here comes the Judgement train! Git on board!”

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Song lyrics, The Firstborn Is Dead (1985), Blind Lemon Jefferson

“Rats in paradise! Rats in paradise!”

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Song lyrics, Mutiny (1993), Mutiny in Heaven

“In the days of madness, my brother, my sister,
When you're dragged toward the Hell-mouth,
You will beg for the end, but there ain't gonna be one, friend,
For the grave will spew you out! It will spew you out!”

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Song lyrics, Tender Prey (1988), City of Refuge

“King Ink feels like a bug,
Swimming in a soup-bowl.”

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Nick Cave livre King Ink

Song lyrics, Prayers on Fire (1981), King Ink

“The concept of God in America is very different than it is in England. Because we see the horrendous outcome of religion as being an American thing, in which the name of God has been hijacked by a gang of psychopaths and bullies and homophobes, and the name of God has been used for their own twisted agendas. So that if you mention God, or a belief in God, in England, it's almost automatically associated with that kind of thinking. Religion's gotten a really bad name.”

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"The resurrection of Nick Cave" http://dir.salon.com/story/ent/feature/2004/11/18/cave/index2.html, Salon (November 18, 2004)
God and religion

“Oh, a passing, skeptical kind of interest. I'm a hammer-and-nails kind of guy.”

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Cave on his interest in Eastern and nontheistic spirituality
God and religion

“The spears of the bright sun, all brave with its conquest,
Did hover unearthly, in banners of fire.
I knelt in the garden, awash with the dawning,
And a voice came so brightly, I covered my eyes.”

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Song lyrics, Tender Prey (1988), New Morning

“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.”

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

“Along crags and sunless cracks I go,
Up rib of rock, down spine of stone,
I dare not slumber where the right winds whistle,
Lest her creeping-soul clutch this heart of thistle.”

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Song lyrics, From Her to Eternity (1984), Well of Misery

“I am the black crow king,
Keeper of the forgotten corn,
The King!”

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Song lyrics, The Firstborn Is Dead (1985), Black Crow King

“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.”

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Melody Maker (May, 1997)
Ageing and death

“Hit it! With words like Blood, Soldier and Mother…”

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Song lyrics, Prayers on Fire (1981), A Dead Song

“The carny had a horse, all skin and bone,
A bow-backed nag, that he named "Sorrow",
Now it is buried in a shallow grave,
In the then parched meadow.”

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Song lyrics, Your Funeral… My Trial (1986), The Carny

“O you recall the song ya used to sing-a-long,
Shifting the river-trade on that ol' steamer,
Life is but a dream!”

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Song lyrics, From Her to Eternity (1984), Saint Huck

“The actualising of God through the medium of the love song remains my prime motivation as an artist.”

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Given during a lecture at the Vienna Poetry Festival (1998)
God and religion

“Of course I doubt [the existence of God], I would distrust anybody who didn't doubt. But I'm a believer. I have an understanding and belief in the divinity of things. It seems to me that people look at God in the wrong way. They think that God is there to serve them, but it's the other way around. God isn't some kind of cosmic bell-boy to be called upon to sort things out for us. It's important for us to realise that God has given us the potential to sort things out on our own.”

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Observer (May, 1998)
God and religion

“King Ink strolls into town…
He sniffs around.”

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Nick Cave livre King Ink

Song lyrics, Prayers on Fire (1981), King Ink

“O poor heart, I was doomed from the start,
Doomed to play the villian's part,
I was the baddest Johnny in the apple cart,
My blood was blacker than the chambers of a dead nun's heart.”

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

“Punishment? Reward! Punishment? Reward!”

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Song lyrics, Mutiny (1993), Mutiny in Heaven

“Here is the hammer, that build the scaffold, and built the box…”

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

“Tallys up his loneliness, notch by notch,
For the sea offers nuthin' to hold or touch.”

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Song lyrics, From Her to Eternity (1984), Cabin Fever!

“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.”

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Mojo (January, 2005)
God and religion

“I hear stories from the chamber,
How Christ was born into a manger,
And like some ragged stranger died up on the cross,
And might I say it seems to fitting in its way,
He was a carpenter by trade,
Or at least that's what I'm told.”

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Song lyrics, Tender Prey (1988), The Mercy Seat

“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.”

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

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