John Cale Quotations

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

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

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

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

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

In the studio you have pretty much carte blanche with whatever you're doing. You can turn natural instruments into electronic instruments.

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

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

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

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