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John Cale Quotes

John Cale Quotes.

I never use the word, it’s loaded. What love means to me is need.
John Cale
In cities like New York and Austin, there’s much more of a social context for music than in other places.
John Cale
When somebody grabs a movement, you’re kind of locked into it. It’s all par for the course.
John Cale
It would be a stronger world, a stronger, loving world, to die in.
John Cale
The only reason we wore sunglasses onstage was because we couldn’t stand the sight of the audience.
John Cale
Everyone should be encouraged…in spiration and artistic freedom is the cornerstone of rock and roll.
John Cale
The avant-garde makes more sense to me.
John Cale
Growing up in Wales was a pretty Draconian experience with religion.
John Cale
The value of having a computer, to me, is that it’ll remember everything you do. It’s a databank.
John Cale
If I’m interested in what I’m doing, other people will be interested in it.
John Cale
I missed out on my teenage years. I led a sheltered life. I was practicing scales instead of playing football.
John Cale
That’s what my life is, writing songs.
John Cale
I missed out on my teenage years. I led a sheltered life. I was practicing scales instead of going out there and playing football.
John Cale
I’m content with making records, but I don’t want to be doing the same thing all the time.
John Cale
I like what the future holds. I don’t like thinking about the past.
John Cale
What I enjoy most about being on stage is that the natural instruments give you a greater freedom with texture. When you use natural instruments they have their own resonance.
John Cale
I learn from thinking about the future, what hasn’t been done yet. That’s kind of my constant obsession.
John Cale
Even if you’re improvising, the fact that beforehand you know certain things will work helps you make those improvisations successful. It really helps to have a certain amount of knowledge about musical structure.
John Cale
We gave up on the idea of trying to make the record a good representation of the live performance.
John Cale
All of the sudden the audiences started getting younger and the spread of the attendance was really wide. I think it’s as a result of the records selling more that they started following our careers.
John Cale
Time plays a role in almost every decision. And some decisions define your attitude about time.
John Cale
We’d hold a chord for three hours if we could.
John Cale
I am a ham. I’ve no business being rock ‘n’ roll. I’ve said it over and over again that I’m a classical composer, dishevelling my personality by dabbling in rock ‘n’ roll.
John Cale
If you’re all loaded up on love, you haven’t got anywhere else to go.
John Cale
I’m writing a movie about Mozart going to New York in the ’60s. I’ve been reading so many novels.
John Cale