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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  Attitude, Decisions You Make, Smart Choices

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• If you're all loaded up on love, you haven't got anywhere else to go.

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  Short Love, Love You, Loaded

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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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  Successful, Musical, Facts

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• Everyone should be encouraged...in spiration and artistic freedom is the cornerstone of rock and roll.

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  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Artistic

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• I want to get lean and mean, keep it minimalist.

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  Mean, Want, Minimalist

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• If I'm interested in what I'm doing, other people will be interested in it.

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  People, Ifs

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• The avant-garde makes more sense to me.

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  Avant Garde

  "Of Anger and Twitching: An Interview with John Cale". Interview with Andrew Phillips, www.popmatters.com. Jan 9, 2006.

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• The only reason we wore sunglasses onstage was because we couldn't stand the sight of the audience.

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  Sight, Sunglasses, Reason

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I write in the studio, I don't sit around with a piano or a guitar and write songs. I get satisfaction out of that because I can finish the song really quickly. I can use whatever momentum I have. I've got to put it down, develop it, and get it as far [as I can], because the excitement of the moment of when you get that idea - you want to try and hold it and build on it and really gain strength from it. Being in the studio and writing songs like that is really the best way.

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  Song, Writing, Trying

  Interview with Melissa Locker, believermag.com. January 1, 2018.

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• I like what the future holds. I don't like thinking about the past.

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  Past, Thinking, Thinking About The Past

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• There was a time where I was the youngest one in any group, and now when I turn around sometimes, I'm the oldest one in every group. It just seemed to flip-flop one day - it wasn't a gradual thing.

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  One Day, Sometimes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• That's what my life is, writing songs.

  John Cale

  Song, Writing, Writing Songs

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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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  Rocks, Personality, Ham

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• I missed out on my teenage years. I led a sheltered life. I was practicing scales instead of going out there and playing football.

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  Football, Teenage, Years

  "Of Anger and Twitching: An Interview with John Cale". Interview with Andrew Phillips, www.popmatters.com. January 09, 2006.

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• It would be a stronger world, a stronger, loving world, to die in.

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  Stronger, Would Be, World

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• I learn from thinking about the future, what hasn't been done yet. That's kind of my constant obsession.

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  Thinking, Done, Kind

  "Of Anger and Twitching: An Interview with John Cale". Interview with Andrew Phillips, www.popmatters.com. January 9, 2006.

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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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  New York, Cities, Austin

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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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  Doing You, Natural, Instruments

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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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  New York, Eye, Ideas

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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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  Giving, Use, Texture

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• I never use the word, it's loaded. What love means to me is need.

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  Mean, Needs, Use

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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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  Ideas, Trying, Records

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• I've just recently started doing the promo bits for the new album, and the funny thing is that the people who come to talk to me about these things seem to be getting younger. It's like the people who like the music are all young kids and they're on top of you - they know all about what you're doing, and they're excited and animated about it. So it's a lot of fun.

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  Fun, Kids, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• People sort of know me for that solo piano music I did.

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  Piano Music, People, Solo

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• The value of having a computer, to me, is that it'll remember everything you do. It's a databank.

  John Cale

  Remembers Everything, Remember, Computer

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