John Cale Quotes

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.

John Cale

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: welsh
  • Birth: March 9, 1942

Topics

WorkKnowledgeYouKnowWillThings

I swam in high school.

Jimmie Johnson

SchoolHigh SchoolHigh

Europe will not accept genetically modified foods. It doesn't make any difference in the final analysis what Brussels does, what Washington does, or what the World Trade Organization does.

Jeremy Rifkin

OrganizationWorldWashingtonAccept

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

John Dryden

LoveFoolWiseWayMindsDifferent

I don't pass judgment on anybody, but personally, I prefer a more natural look. I think it's helping my longevity in my career because I'm playing my age.

Andie MacDowell

AgeThinkLookCareerLongevity

Sincerity is like traveling on a plain, beaten road, which commonly brings a man sooner to his journey's end than by-ways, in which men often lose themselves.

John Tillotson

JourneyMenManRoadEndLose

British culture loves the image of itself in the mirror; it doesn't want to look deep inside, behind the eyes, inside the brain, inside where those shivers and nightmares lie.

Steven Berkoff

EyesMirrorCultureLieBrainDeep

We may have to learn to live with cancer rather than die of it. It means a big change in our mindset and how we do research. We haven't quite reached there yet.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

ChangeLiveResearchMindsetLearn

My mom died before she knew I was gay, and my dad thought it was a phase, then realized it wasn't.

LP

MomThoughtGaySheKnewPhase

I grew up playing the saxophone. I joined the jazz band in high school, but somewhere along the way I realized the guys who strummed acoustic guitars at parties were the ones who got the attention. So I asked a friend to show me a few chords, and when I moved to L.A. I spent a lot of time practicing my guitar.

Chris Carmack

FriendTimeSchoolMeHigh School

When you stop comparing what is right here and now with what you wish were, you can begin to enjoy what is.

Cheri Huber

WishEnjoyYouStopNowRight

One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

MenBrotherTieUpWhereSomething

The arts were like, there's no opponent. It's just yourself. I'm not saying they don't make the arts a competition with awards and all that, but that's outside the work itself.

Richard Linklater

WorkYourselfCompetitionSaying

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