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
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.
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!
attitude smart-choices play
Time plays a role in almost every decision. And some decisions define your attitude about time.
successful musical facts
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.
football teenage years
I missed out on my teenage years. I led a sheltered life. I was practicing scales instead of playing football.
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.
ideas trying records
We gave up on the idea of trying to make the record a good representation of the live performance.
sight sunglasses reason
The only reason we wore sunglasses onstage was because we couldn't stand the sight of the audience.
giving texture use
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.
movement kind courses
When somebody grabs a movement, you're kind of locked into it. It's all par for the course.
song writing writing-songs
That's what my life is, writing songs.
piano-music people solo
People sort of know me for that solo piano music I did.
growing-up growing wales
Growing up in Wales was a pretty Draconian experience with religion.