John Cale Quotes

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• The only reason we wore sunglasses onstage was because we couldn't stand the sight of the audience.
• I like what the future holds. I don't like thinking about the past.
• Time plays a role in almost every decision. And some decisions define your attitude about time.
• 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…
• I learn from thinking about the future, what hasn't been done yet. That's kind of my constant obsession.
• The avant-garde makes more sense to me.
• The value of having a computer, to me, is that it'll remember everything you do. It's a databank.
• If you're all loaded up on love, you haven't got anywhere else to go.
• In the studio you have pretty much carte blanche with whatever you're doing. You can turn natural instruments into electronic instruments.
• I'm content with making records, but I don't want to be doing the same thing all the time.
• It would be a stronger world, a stronger, loving world, to die in.
• I never use the word, it's loaded. What love means to me is need.
• I missed out on my teenage years. I led a sheltered life. I was practicing scales instead of playing football.
• We gave up on the idea of trying to make the record a good representation of the live performance.
• Everyone should be encouraged...in spiration and artistic freedom is the cornerstone of rock and roll.
• 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…
• Growing up in Wales was a pretty Draconian experience with religion.
• I want to get lean and mean, keep it minimalist.
• I'm impatient. I get twitchy. When I get that feeling I just go out and make something happen.
• 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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