John Cale Quotes
"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
(Related: Selling, Audiences, Careers, Result)
"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
(Related: Work, Knowledge, Successful, Fact, Will)
"Growing up in Wales was a pretty Draconian experience with religion."
- John Cale
(Related: Experience, Religion, Growing up, Pretty)
"I learn from thinking about the future, what hasn't been done yet. That's kind of my constant obsession."
- John Cale
(Related: Future, Obsession, Thinking)
"I like what the future holds. I don't like thinking about the past."
- John Cale
(Related: Future, Past, Thinking)
"When somebody grabs a movement, you're kind of locked into it. It's all par for the course."
- John Cale
"I want to get lean and mean, keep it minimalist."
- John Cale
(Related: Want)
"I'm content with making records, but I don't want to be doing the same thing all the time."
- John Cale
(Related: Time, Content, Want)
"I'm impatient. I get twitchy. When I get that feeling I just go out and make something happen."
- John Cale
(Related: Feeling)
"I'm writing a movie about Mozart going to New York in the '60s. I've been reading so many novels."
- John Cale
(Related: Reading, Writing)
"If you're all loaded up on love, you haven't got anywhere else to go."
- John Cale
(Related: Love)
"Time plays a role in almost every decision. And some decisions define your attitude about time."
- John Cale
(Related: Time, Attitude, Decision, Decisions)
"I missed out on my teenage years. I led a sheltered life. I was practicing scales instead of playing football."
- John Cale
(Related: Life, Football, Teenage, Years)
"I never use the word, it's loaded. What love means to me is need."
- John Cale
(Related: Love, Word)
"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
(Related: Being, Freedom)
"If I'm interested in what I'm doing, other people will be interested in it."
- John Cale
(Related: People, Will)
"We gave up on the idea of trying to make the record a good representation of the live performance."
- John Cale
(Related: Idea, Performance, Trying)
"The value of having a computer, to me, is that it'll remember everything you do. It's a databank."
- John Cale
(Related: Computer, Value)
"The only reason we wore sunglasses onstage was because we couldn't stand the sight of the audience."
- John Cale
(Related: Reason, Sight)
"The avant-garde makes more sense to me."
- John Cale
(Related: Sense)
"That's what my life is, writing songs."
- John Cale
(Related: Life, Songs, Writing)
"People sort of know me for that solo piano music I did."
- John Cale
(Related: Music, People)
"We'd hold a chord for three hours if we could."
- John Cale