Nick Cave Quotes

I'm a hundred percent a rock n' roll guy.

Where is this great love for rock and roll that existed for 50 or 60 years?

There's always gonna be rock n' roll bands, there's always gonna be kids that love rock n' roll records, and there will always be rock n' roll.

Rock n' roll's not dead.

I love rock n' rollers.

I can't even picture being without rock 'n'roll.

My influences were Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis and Chuck Berry.

I usually listen to classic rock and roll.

For me, Memphis has always been a city that holds a great deal of meaning and also leads me to a lot of thinking. Besides Sun Studio, which helped put rock n' roll on the map all over the world, the legendary Stax Studio also called Memphis home.

The spirit of rock 'n' roll is alive and well. It kind of just needs to be cultivated a little bit.

When the fearsome foursome of rock music, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Little Richard, and Jerry Lee Lewis, decided to show up in Toronto for a rock and roll festival, I knew we had to go there to try to get them all on film.

I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that.

Good rock music always tends to be around.

Frankly speaking, I don't know much about rock music. But I enjoyed some when I was in college or high school. But I stopped listening after Elvis Presley!

See, heroes never die. John Wayne isn't dead, Elvis isn't dead. Otherwise you don't have a hero. You can't kill a hero. That's why I never let him get older.

I always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.

The Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Phil Spector. Those were my idols.

I'm hard-pressed to think of a lot of great rock movies.

I had this image before Boy George, before the Beatles, before the Rolling Stones.

Actually, I hear a lot of rock music. My husband is a big rock fan.

Rock n' roll was a kid when I was a kid.

Over the years, Joy Division has become a huge part of music culture.

My mom was real into like a lot of different musical artists, real artists, even back when Jay-Z and Beyonce was together.

Without people like Dylan and the Beatles and people like Paul Simon, I think rock n' roll would have died out like Dixieland jazz.

I thought the message of the artist was more important than the writing style. I tried to be clear; I wanted everyone to be welcome. I think some of the more serious writers wrote to a more elite audience than that. They're the ones who were defining the seriousness of rock n' roll.