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