John Cale
John Cale
John Davies Cale, OBEis a Welsh musician, composer, singer-songwriter and record producer who was a founding member of the American experimental rock band the Velvet Underground...
NationalityWelsh
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth9 March 1942
remembers-everything computer remember
The value of having a computer, to me, is that it'll remember everything you do. It's a databank.
albums couple rock roll
I started off doing rock 'n' roll, and then I went back, a couple of albums ago, into writing rock 'n' roll songs, and now this is a show with a straight-up rock 'n' roll band.
follow looking moves next welsh-musician
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!
audiences following result spread sudden welsh-musician younger
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.
chord hold hours three welsh-musician
We'd hold a chord for three hours if we could.
bored soundtrack welsh-musician
I just get bored with what I'm doing. I like to switch. I did a lot of soundtrack work, and once I got that under my belt, I started writing songs.
along certainly impetus minimize pick welsh-musician
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.
sight sunglasses reason
The only reason we wore sunglasses onstage was because we couldn't stand the sight of the audience.
ideas trying records
We gave up on the idea of trying to make the record a good representation of the live performance.
mean use needs
I never use the word, it's loaded. What love means to me is need.
stronger would-be world
It would be a stronger world, a stronger, loving world, to die in.
records want
I'm content with making records, but I don't want to be doing the same thing all the time.
doing-you natural instruments
In the studio you have pretty much carte blanche with whatever you're doing. You can turn natural instruments into electronic instruments.
thinking done kind
I learn from thinking about the future, what hasn't been done yet. That's kind of my constant obsession.