“Oh! Yer! What a wonderful life! Fats Domino on the radio!”
Song lyrics, Prayers on Fire (1981), King Ink
Nicholas Edward Cave je austrálsky spevák, textár, básnik a herec.
Spoluzakladal The Boys Next Door, koncom sedemdesiatych rokov sa premenovali na The Birthday Party.
V roku 1984 sa The Birthday Party rozpadla a jej dvaja členovia Nick Cave a Mick Harvey založili skupinu Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, ku ktorej patrili aj Blixa Bargeld, gitarista v Einstürzende Neubauten, Barry Adamson, Hugo Race a Anita Lane.
V marci 2008 dostal čestný doktorát na Monash University v Melbourne za propagáciu Austrálie po celom svete. V rokoch 1977 – 78 navštevoval na univerzite Caulfield Institute of Technology, štúdium však nedokončil, pretože sa začal venovať hudbe.
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“Oh! Yer! What a wonderful life! Fats Domino on the radio!”
Song lyrics, Prayers on Fire (1981), King Ink
"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.”
Song lyrics, Prayers on Fire (1981), Zoo-Music Girl
“Ah've cried one thousand tears, it's true.”
Song lyrics, From Her to Eternity (1984), A Box for Black Paul
Song lyrics, The Bad Seed EP (1993), Deep in the Woods
“Here comes the Judgement train! Git on board!”
Song lyrics, The Firstborn Is Dead (1985), Blind Lemon Jefferson
“King Ink feels like a bug,
Swimming in a soup-bowl.”
Song lyrics, Prayers on Fire (1981), King Ink
"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.”
Cave on his interest in Eastern and nontheistic spirituality
God and religion
Song lyrics, From Her to Eternity (1984), A Box for Black Paul
Song lyrics, From Her to Eternity (1984), Well of Misery
“I am the black crow king,
Keeper of the forgotten corn,
The King!”
Song lyrics, The Firstborn Is Dead (1985), Black Crow King
“Hit it! With words like Blood, Soldier and Mother…”
Song lyrics, Prayers on Fire (1981), A Dead Song
Song lyrics, Your Funeral… My Trial (1986), The Carny
Song lyrics, From Her to Eternity (1984), Saint Huck
“Tupelo-o-o! Hey, Tupelo! You will reap just what you sow.”
Song lyrics, The Firstborn Is Dead (1985), Tupelo
Given during a lecture at the Vienna Poetry Festival (1998)
God and religion
Observer (May, 1998)
God and religion
“King Ink strolls into town…
He sniffs around.”
Song lyrics, Prayers on Fire (1981), King Ink
Song lyrics, Tender Prey (1988), Up Jumped the Devil
“Here is the hammer, that build the scaffold, and built the box…”
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.”
Song lyrics, From Her to Eternity (1984), Cabin Fever!
Mojo (January, 2005)
God and religion
Song lyrics, Tender Prey (1988), The Mercy Seat
Song lyrics, The Firstborn Is Dead (1985), Tupelo