John Cale quotes
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“Time plays a role in almost every decision. And some decisions define your attitude about time.”
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“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.”
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“I like it here in New York. I like the idea of having to keep eyes in the back of your head all the time.”
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“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.”
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“Growing up in Wales was a pretty Draconian experience with religion.”
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“I want to get lean and mean, keep it minimalist.”
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“I'm impatient. I get twitchy. When I get that feeling I just go out and make something happen.”
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“I'm writing a movie about Mozart going to New York in the '60s. I've been reading so many novels.”
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“If I'm interested in what I'm doing, other people will be interested in it.”
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“In cities like New York and Austin, there's much more of a social context for music than in other places.”
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“People sort of know me for that solo piano music I did.”
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“When somebody grabs a movement, you're kind of locked into it. It's all par for the course.”
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“Everyone should be encouraged...in spiration and artistic freedom is the cornerstone of rock and roll.”
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“We gave up on the idea of trying to make the record a good representation of the live performance.”
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“I like what the future holds. I don't like thinking about the past.”
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“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.”
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“I learn from thinking about the future, what hasn't been done yet. That's kind of my constant obsession.”
-- John CaleSource : "Of Anger and Twitching: An Interview with John Cale". Interview with Andrew Phillips, www.popmatters.com. January 9, 2006.
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“The avant-garde makes more sense to me.”
-- John CaleSource : "Of Anger and Twitching: An Interview with John Cale". Interview with Andrew Phillips, www.popmatters.com. Jan 9, 2006.
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“The value of having a computer, to me, is that it'll remember everything you do. It's a databank.”
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“If you're all loaded up on love, you haven't got anywhere else to go.”
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“In the studio you have pretty much carte blanche with whatever you're doing. You can turn natural instruments into electronic instruments.”
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“I'm content with making records, but I don't want to be doing the same thing all the time.”
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“It would be a stronger world, a stronger, loving world, to die in.”
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“I never use the word, it's loaded. What love means to me is need.”
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“I missed out on my teenage years. I led a sheltered life. I was practicing scales instead of playing football.”
-- John CaleSource : "Of Anger and Twitching: An Interview with John Cale". Interview with Andrew Phillips, www.popmatters.com. January 09, 2006.
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“The only reason we wore sunglasses onstage was because we couldn't stand the sight of the audience.”
-- John Cale
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