John Cale

(11 votes)   I'm impatient. I get twitchy. When I get that feeling I just go out and make something happen.

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(11 votes)   We gave up on the idea of trying to make the record a good representation of the live performance.

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(42 votes)   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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(41 votes)   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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(15 votes)   I'm still looking for something. I'm getting closer, I think, but if someone moves the goalposts before the next album, I may have to follow them!

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(15 votes)   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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(14 votes)   Growing up in Wales was a pretty Draconian experience with religion.

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

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(13 votes)   If you pick the right musicians, you minimize your problems. It's not the first impetus that they get along together, but it certainly helps.

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(13 votes)   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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(13 votes)   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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(12 votes)   I want to get lean and mean, keep it minimalist.

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(12 votes)   I'm content with making records, but I don't want to be doing the same thing all the time.

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(12 votes)   If I'm interested in what I'm doing, other people will be interested in it.

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

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