Nick Cave

Person · Open Library

Born

22 September 1957

Works

52

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

Australia

Active from

1957-09-22

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

599,185

Total plays

7,992,854

Nicholas Edward Cave AO (born 22 September 1957) is an Australian singer, songwriter, author, screenwriter, composer and occasional actor, best known for fronting the rock band Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds. Cave's music is generally characterized by his baritone voice, emotional intensity, a wide variety of influences and lyrical obsessions with death, religion, love and violence. Born and raised in rural Victoria, Cave studied art before fronting The Birthday Party, one of Melbourne's leading pos

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. PGC-1α-responsive genes involved in oxidative phosphorylation are coordinately downregulated in human diabetes

   · 2003 · cited 9,168x

2. Principal components analysis corrects for stratification in genome-wide association studies

   · 2006 · cited 9,090x

3. The diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment due to Alzheimer's disease: Recommendations from the National Institute on Aging‐Alzheimer's Association workgroups on diagnostic guidelines for Alzheimer's disease

   · 2011 · cited 9,010x

4. Dementia prevention, intervention, and care: 2020 report of the Lancet Commission

   · 2020 · cited 8,898x

5. Genome-wide association study of 14,000 cases of seven common diseases and 3,000 shared controls

   · 2007 · cited 7,906x

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Quotes

• “The song is heroic because the song confronts death. The song is immortal and bravely stares down our own extinction. The song emerges from the spirit world with a true message: Some day I will tell you how to slay the dragon.”
• “Do you want to know how to write a song? Song-writing is about counterpoint. Counterpoint is the key. Putting two disparate images beside each other and seeing which way the sparks fly. Like letting a small child in the same room as, I don't know, a Mongolian psychopath or something, and just sitting back and seeing what happens. Then you send in a clown, say, on a tricycle, and again, you wait, and you watch ... And if that doesn't do it... you shoot the clown.”
• “Do I personally believe in a personal God? No.”
• “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.”
• “My responsibility as an artist is to turn up at the page or the piano or the microphone. The rest is up to God.”
• “The actualising of God through the medium of the love song remains my prime motivation as an artist.”

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Wikidata facts

Official website

nickcaveart.com

Image

Nick cave.jpg

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