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
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.
avant-garde
The avant-garde makes more sense to me.
rocks personality ham
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.
sight sunglasses reason
The only reason we wore sunglasses onstage was because we couldn't stand the sight of the audience.
movement kind courses
When somebody grabs a movement, you're kind of locked into it. It's all par for the course.
piano-music people solo
People sort of know me for that solo piano music I did.
remembers-everything computer remember
The value of having a computer, to me, is that it'll remember everything you do. It's a databank.
rocks rock-and-roll artistic
Everyone should be encouraged...in spiration and artistic freedom is the cornerstone of rock and roll.
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.
chord hold hours three welsh-musician
We'd hold a chord for three hours if we could.