John Cale Quotes
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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.
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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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Growing up in Wales was a pretty Draconian experience with religion.
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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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I like what the future holds. I don't like thinking about the past.
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I missed out on my teenage years. I led a sheltered life. I was practicing scales instead of playing football.
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I never use the word, it's loaded. What love means to me is need.
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I want to get lean and mean, keep it minimalist.
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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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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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If you're all loaded up on love, you haven't got anywhere else to go.
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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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That's what my life is, writing songs.
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The avant-garde makes more sense to me.
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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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The value of having a computer, to me, is that it'll remember everything you do. It's a databank.
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Time plays a role in almost every decision. And some decisions define your attitude about time.
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